Evening star., 1936-04-01
HITLER PROPOSES
NEW TREATyPLAN
Memorandum to Eden Sug.
gests Negotiations Cover
ing Four Months.

(Copyright, 1886. by the Associated Press
BERLIN, April Adolf Hitler, in a
memorandum to British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden, proposed today
negotiations covering a period Of four
months for what might be termed a
new Locarno, replacing the pact bro
ken by Germany
During these negotiations, Der
Fuehrer suggested, Germany. France
and Belgium should accept control of
their frontiers by commission of one
representative each from Great Brit
ain, Italy and one neutral power.
Both sides-Germany which re-
militarized the Rhineland in VIOLA
tion of the Locarno pact, and France
and Belgium. which protested this
action-should refrain from casting
aspersions on each other, either in
publications, public utterances or
teachings.
Plebiscite Proposal.
A plebiscite of the three peoples in
volved was proposed by Hitler to give
solemn sanction to the work of the
statesmen, once the negotiations were
concluded successfully.
These negotiations, with neither side
to increase its military forces along
the border zone, would be followed by
a general conference for limitation of
ornaments.
The terms, offering Hitler's way out
of the Rhineland impasSe, were dis
closed today after Joachim Won Rib
bentrop, Der Fuehrer's Ambassador at
large, carried them to London to be
presented today to Eden.
Twenty-seven points, grouped under
three major headings and filling %
typewriter pages, constituted Hitler's
reply to the original plan by the other
Locarno powers for settlement of the
crisis by creation of a new demili-
tarized zone in Germany. submission
of the dispute over the Franco-Soviet
pact to the World Court and calling
of a great international conference.
The first section was devoted to
legal consideration of questions of
procedure. The second set forth Hit
ler's proposals for reorganization of
Europe on a peaceful basis The third
called for a general conference for
limitation of armaments and human
ization" of war.
Violations Charged.
The German memorandum. which
Won Ribbentrop was instructed to
hand directly to Eden. charged that
France began with violation of the IA
points of Woodrow Wilson which con-
stituted the basis for Germany's ac-
ceptance of the World War armistice.
If there were to be further negotia-
tions, the German government con-
tended, there must be reorganization
of the peace which resulted from the
Versailles treaty after the World War.
Hitler declared Germany could not
accept the original London memoran-
DUN of the other Locarno powers
France, Belgium, Britain and Italy.
He said the Reich also considered
the proposed conversations between
the French and British Army general
staffs, to insure security against any
German aggression, as most inoppor-
tune.
Der Fuehrer ruled that the proposed
new Locarno negotiations must take
place in three phases:
/. Agreement on the procedure for
the negotiations.
2. The negotiations themselves for
the new Locarno
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immediate urgency-for instance, eco
nomic questions-which must be
solved in due time.
The second section of Hitler'S men,
orandum contained II concrete sug-
gestions, Incorporating the seven
points of Hitler's Reichstag speech
March 7 as his troops entered the
Rhlneland.
Among the concrete proposals were |
those for non-aggression pacts with |
France, Belgium and the Neither
lands. with Britain and Italy to be
guarantors.
25-Year Maintenance.
Hitler offered to maintain these
treaties for 25 years.
Air pacts. non-aggression pacts with
Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and
Lithuania also were suggested, with
the Reich offering to return to the
League of Nations Immediately after
the negotiations came to a successful
conclusion.
Informed sources said Hitler's offer
hot to reinforce his troops in the
Rhine region, provided France and
Belgium also did not increase theirs,
VAS Of particular significance.
During the period of negotiations,
Der Fuehrer proposed, the three ma
ions should agree to refrain from
hateful or spiteful remarks about each
other.
He called also for an avoidance of
poisoning" the youth Of one ma
ion with disrespect or hatred for an
'ther, and an end to publication of
anything calculated to poison the feel
ngs of one people toward another.
Germany, he declared, was ready to
accept a special committee of the
League to study any complaints of
of such provisions, and to
submit these complaints to the gov