Evening star., 1933-10-16
Won NEURATH RAPS
V|CT0RS' ATTITUDE
Says Division of Nations on
Postwar Basis Can No
Longer Continue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October 16.-Konstantin
Won Neurath, the German foreign min
lister, summarized 1.-The cardinal ques-
ton" of current politics today by ask
ing, "Shall the division Of nations into
victors and vanquished be eternalized?"
Baron Won Neurath received the en-
tire foreign press and discussed Ger
many's withdrawal from the League Of
Nations and the Disarmament Confer
ence. He asserted:
THE cardinal question around which
the entire politics Of the present day
turns, and concerning which the un-
equivocal answer must be given is:
Shall the division of nations into
victors and vanquished be eternallzed
or is. at last. the principal to receive
recognition that all states are men,
bers, with equal rights of the commu-
nifty of nations?
THE recognition and realization Of
this principle is decisive for every form
of international cooperation.
Says Issue is Dodged.
"All statesmen for years have theo-
retically proclaimed this as self-evi-
dent truth, but they could not bring
themselves to drawing the necessary
and practical consequences from it.
Last Saturday it became clear at
Geneva that the German people are
denied equality in one of the ques-
tions supremely affecting its very exist
ence. namely. national security
Thereby the powers destroyed the
foundation on which the honest and
truthful cooperation of nations alone
is thinkable.
the possibility to participate within the
framework Of the Geneva institution
In discussions of actual international
problems.
with an evident will to discrim-
mate against Germany on this prin-
ciple they violated the fundamental
idea underlying the League Of Nations
and themselves gave evidence that they
attach no importance to honest and
real cooperation with Germany.
Sees Dishonesty Avoided.
1.-THE German people would defame
themselves and act dishonesty If, de.
spite this condition of things, it at.
tempted to keep up the appearance Of
such cooperation"
The foreign minister then pointed
out to the newspaper men that equality
was demanded by Germany from the
moment when the question of her entry
into the League was first raised.
He reminded his hearers of the frs
official pronouncement of the League
of Nations Council to the German gov.
eminent in December 1924, in which
Council members declared themselves a.
one with Germans demand fol
equality.
This equality" Won Neurath main.
tanned, could alone be the basis also
for Germany's attitude in the disafma-
ment question for this question was ex.
actly that part of the League of Nation.
program in connection with whose
treatment the powers had to decide
whether they meant equality or not"
Cites Locarno Protocol.
Won Neurath pointed out that in ths
final protocol OF the Locarno confer.
ence q solution to the disarmament
problem was characterized as the most
important task of the League.
Germany's final entry in 1926, he said
could not be evaluated otherwise thar
as q solemn approval by all govern
ments represented in the League Of the
Interpretation that from now on they
would build up their League policy
especially regarding disarmament, or
the basis Of German equality"