The Archive · 1936

Reich Re-arming Main Problem

Mr. Winston Churchill said the real problem was not the re-occupation of the Rhineland but the re-armament of Germany. He suggested that all states alarmed by the growth of German armaments ought to form pacts of mutual assistance under the Covenant of the League of Nations.

'No arrangements," he declared, should be imposed on Germany that we are not prepared to Impose on ourselves. 'The inviolability of German soil' should be guaranteed, and Germany should be addressed eolleetively not only on the minor question of the Rhine but on the supreme question of German re-armament. Ger many must be invited to slate her Major C. R. Atttee, leader of the Opposition, said that "Labour agreed that Germany' should be Invited to fake part in the League.

It would, however, be useless to think that they could build a stable collective system "if they took Germany on a basis of broken faith without an indication that' her next Promises would be kept, They should insist that she make a eontsibution to peace and security,

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