Evening star., 1930-06-22
FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS
AMERICAN AUDIENCE FOR PEACE
Or. Julius CurtiuS Aims Radio
Talk From Berlin to
This Country.
Speaker Was Captain of
Artillery During the
World War.
az the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 21.-A fighting mans
plea for peace, aimed at America, across
5000 miles Of ocean, by the former Ger
man captain of artillery, who is now his
country's foreign minister, was sent out
The man behind this long-range at
tack on war and international misun-
1erstanding was DR.. Julius Curtius, mas
ter Of the Reich's foreign policy. The
occasion for his radio appeal was .
movement to found an academy Of peace
in memory Of the late Gustav Strese-
mann, peacemaker of postwar Ger
many and predecessor Of DR.. Curtius at
the foreign once.
Germany needs and desires peace" :"
DR.. Curtius told his transatlantic audi
ence, "a peace honorable for everybody,
q peace secured not by military arma-
naents, but by justice and good viii and
reciprocal sincere understanding.
I'VE desire such peace not as a
nation UNIT or loath TO bear arms.
We desire it as men who know how to
ngnt-I myself served at the front for
more than four years-but who have
come to. understand that there are
other ways of settling international con-
troversies than by letting an inferno
loose over humanity.
Says Treaty Most Unjust.
"And we have given ample proof of
that spirit. The world knows how the
German people, although hit incredibly
hard by the most unjust OF peace
treaties, renounced from the beginning
any idea of revenge.
"It knows the great work OF con-
ciliation Of my much-lamented frieno
Gustav Stresemann, embodied in the
treaties Of Locarno. It knows OF our
active collaboration in all the labors of
the League of Nations. Like the
United States, Germany Is striving to
make the world safe from a recurrence
Of the cataclysm that would without
fail put an end to our civilization.
I'VE stand unreservedly for peace
full settlement Of every kind of conflict
between States, and, having ourselves, IN
spite of all rumors to the contrary,
completely disarmed following the
treaty of Versailles, we strongly insist
unpon an all-around reduction to a
minimum Of all military establishments
and preparations for war"
DR.. Curtius buttressed his appeal for
universal disarmament by declaring
that such military establishments "alS
always a potential danger to the peace
of the world, for the more guns there
are, the more readily one win acci-
dentally 60 off at the critical hour"
He remarked that 1t was easy for him
to speak freely with Americans II
Stresemann's death had not put him
at the helm of the foreign ministry, he
said he would now have been carrying
out an old plan for spending a Summer
In the United States, speaking face to
face with Americans instead Of by
radio.
Sees Friendly Relations.
Commenting on German American
relations he noted that it is an out
standing feature of these relations that
among our erstwhile enemies your
country was the first after the expira-
ton of the economic clauses of the
treaty of Versailles to offer Germany
q treaty of friendship and commerce.
1t Is another outstanding feature
that the United States was one of
few countries that restored German
property seized during the war to its
rfghtful owners. Moreover, it was due
to the active cooperation of prom
inent leaders In the American busi-
ness world that the horny problem
OF reparations was put to an appre-
ciable extent on q business basis.
But, above all, American capital,
though well aware of the enormous
dinculties facing Germany IN her work
OF reconstruction, has come to our as
sistance and given new blood to our
anemic business life, reciprocating In
q way for what German capital did for
your country in pre-war times"
Remarking that close financial ard
economic links were a firm basis for
German American relations, he pointed
out, however, that "the real mutual
understanding between two nations
can never rest on anything merely ma
terial. 1t can only be created by a
common purpose, pointing to a higher
goal beyond the national aims of either.
Fortunately that community of pur-
pose exists between Germany and the
United States"
Referring to outstanding moves
toward world peace since the end OF the
war, DR.. Curtius, graphically described
them all as "a kind Of traffic regulation
for vehicles of state, big or small, to
safeguard any one from being rammed
or bumped into BY another with det-