The Archive · 1937

German Comment

Berlin Nov. 6.

"The new principles laid down by Germany and Poland regarding their minority policy deserve thorough attention abroad," writes the semiofficial "German Diplomatic Political Correspondence."

The "Correspondence" points out that the League of Nations was hardly anywhere able to achieve a satisfactory settlement of the minority problem while Germany, not a member of the Geneva institution, once more successfully demonstrated that with the good-will of those directly concerned, practical solutions can be reached in this field of vital importance for harmony among nations.

"This willingness to continue on the way of understanding and good neighbourship finds its expression also in the determination that, contrary to the desire of some foreign quarters to drag the Danzig question via Geneva as an aggravating element into the German-Polish relations, these relations shall not be disturbed by that question just as the developments in the free city during the past two years have not led to a disturbance in the German-Polish rela.

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