Berlin, Jan. 3.
The German press this morning for the first time broke the silence so far observed on the Anglo-German naval conversations.
The "Essener National Zeitung, generally considered as the mouthpiece of Field Marshal Hermann Goering, stresses that Germany has no intention of entering into a naval armament race with Great Britain and that the German submarine building programme has no "dangerous chauvinism" but the normal assertion of rights provided by treaty clauses. The paper adds that there is not the slightest reason for Great Britain to believe herself menaced by the German submarine building programme.
The article concludes by asking whether in England the same methods are to be applied to kill the spirit of the naval treaties which led to answering the Munich Agreement with limitless demands for "When the Note was given out to the American press, it was accompanied by the intimation that it must be considered as America's fundamental summing of what was contended in detail in many earlier communications."
As such, the American press was informed, it was designed to close that phase of the matter.
The Washington correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the feeling is growing in official circles that something more is needed to meet the prest situation than "non-recognition." Ý (It will be re-celled that the latest American Note to Japan stressed America's nonrecognition of Japan's right to establish a "new order" in China.)
Some London observers predict that Mr. Wang Ching-wei will obtain the support of the Chinese business world. The general feeling is that Mr. Wang's demarche will prove 2 "damp squib."
"It is regrettable, but it will make no difference to China's solemnly declared policy," was the opinion expressed by Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambassador in London, when interviewed yesterday.—Reuter.
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