Evening star., 1936-03-17
GERMANY |SREADY.
TO Join IN PARLEY.
Hitler and Aides Prepare
for London Peace
Discussion.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
BERLIN. March II tP.-Germany
will be represented in London at the
League of Nations Council meeting
considering the Reich's denunciation
of the Locarno pact, the foreign office
advised j. A. C. Avenol. secretary gen.
eral of the League. by telegraph today.
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's ambassador at large, will
head the delegation which will sit at
the Council table in response to the
invitation Of the Council which stip-
ulated that Germany would enjoy full
equality with the other delegates.
The reply of the Locarno powers to
the chancellor's demands for consid-
Grafton of his peace proposals, as an
integral part of his acceptance Of the
invitation to join in the discussions in
London, was received here about S
o'clock in the afternoon.
Reply Held Favorable.
1t was considered so favorable that
the reply of acceptance was cabled
80 minutes later after hurried con-
ference between Hitler and his ad-
visers on foreign policy.
Avenol was informed the German
delegation will be ready to start to
work Thursday morning.
1t will consist of Ribbentrop, DR..
Hans H Dieckhoff. a DR.. Woermann
of the foreign Offices legal depart
ment, Oscar Wingen of the foreign
Office economic department. trans
lator and one other foreign Office staff
man.
The delegation expects to leave
Berlin Wednesday morning for London.
Hitler Speaking IL Times.
Twelve times Hitler will have re-
peated his arguments against the Lo-
carno pact in great mass meetings
before the German people vote March
% on his policies in the Reichstag
election.
Der Fuehrer is scheduled to stump
every section of the Reich during the
next 10 days.
His tentative program includes ad-
dresses at Koenigsberg March 18;
Hamburg, March 20; Beuthen. March
%; Berlin. March "a; Chemnitz, March
25; Neunkirchen, March 26: Essen,
March 81. and Cologne, March %.
That Hitlers undoubted victory at
the polls would be followed by a mass
demonstration before the Berlin chan
celery was foreshadowed today when
all trees in the Wilhelmplatz, opposite
the chancellery, were cut down.
Officials Safeguarded.
This made it possible for spectators
to have an unobstructed view of Der
Fuehrer as he emerged from the little
balcony built last Summer for such
purposes.
Unusual precautions to insure the
safety of the leading men of the Nazi
regime were indicated by notice ap-
pearing in Cologne newspapers. where
Air Minister Gen. Hermann Wilhelm
Goering was scheduled to speak late
today.
Certain streets were designated by
police order as thoroughfareS in which
1t was strictly forbidden for any one
to climb on the roofs of houses.
The German press foreSaw that after
the present League Council session,
to consider Der Fuehrer's proposals
for new security system.
The League communication arrived
while Hitler was speaking last night
at Main, in the Rhine
land.
Der Fuehrer returned to Berlin to
consider the note after reiterating in
his speech to one of the many cam
paign meetings on the day of the
defense force"-firSt anniversary of
German rearmament in defiance of
the Versailles treaty-that the Reich
sought to preserve peace with France
Seeks Full Sovereignty
Criticizing France for its conclu-
sion Of mutual assistance pact with
Soviet Russia, he declared the Reich
sought full sovereignty over Germany
but peace with the world.
German people. ask you. do you
want to bury the hatchet with
France?" he exclaimed to roars of
approval from the $4,000 persons who
thronged the "festhalle"
we want nothing from France"
he proclaimed, but of Germany we
want all there is. We want SOW
ereignty over Germany - nothing |
more-but also nothing less. No
might in the world can drive us |
back from this decision"
Der Fuehrer'S address was his |
third in the campaign for the March !
29 ReichStag election, called to in
dorse his policies
The Reichsfuehrer was greeted by
cheers that grew louder as he hurled
defiance across Europes frontiers and
launched into an attack upon France
that was more bitter than either of
the addresses delivered at karlsruhe
and Munich, in which he defended his
course in sending troops into the
Rhineland
Attacks Franco Soviet Pact.
He attacked France for signing the