The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-14
Germany Was Given
 Forty-Eight Hours
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ternoons council meeting when she will be given opportunity to present her case and work for com- promise.
 Today's council heard British For. eign Secretary Anthony Eden de- clare Germany had committed a patent, incontestable breach" ot the Locarno and Versailles pacts.
 Berlin - Germany awaited league Councils decision while official spokesmen remained silent on spe. clfic compromise efforts mentioned in Adolf Hitler's Frankfurt speech last Monday.
 Paris - New Locarno treaty based on British aid in defending Frances eastern frontiers revealed as major goal of French delegation to Lon don meeting.
 Will Not Attend
 Rerlin, March 14-(UP) - Ger many will not attend Mondays Leakue of Nations council in Lon- don, it was indicated today.
 The United Press was informed that the major factor prompting German impulse to decline the invi- tation is that fact that the Reich was invited as a signatory of the Locarno treaty.
 Germany considers the Locarnc pact dead and buried" an unofficial but well informed source pointed out.
 The councils reply arrived at the chancellory late this afternoon but 1t was received after Fuehrer Adolf Hitler had taken of by airplane for Munich. The invitation has yet to reach Der Fuehrer.
 May Answer Speeches
 "It is quite possible that this afternoon Germany will issue an answer to the speeches made before the League of Nations council in London by French Foreign Minister Pierre -Etienna Flandin and Belgian Premier Paul Van Zealand" for- eign office spokesman said.
 There will be an answer If care- full study shows that we deem they call for an answer"
 Germans received Realistically the London actions by the Locarno signatories and council members.
 Start Machinery
 London, March l4--UP)-At its session Monday afternoon, if Ger many does not attend, 1t will be for the council to start the machinery of condemning Germany in the leagues name and considering whether to proceed to penalize her under resolution passed last April when Hitler first violated the Ver- sailles treaty by reintroducing com- pulsory army service. It must vote Germany guilty of treaty violation and ask the Locarno powers to recommend 8 course of action France will be satisfied with noth- ing less than penalties unless Hitler capitulates.
 IA Nations Present
 Fourteen nations were represent ed by delegates at a great chestnut horseshoe table in the Queen Anne drawin groom of old St. James pal ace where King Charles I spent the night before his execution. Belgium attended, in addition, as a signatory of the Locarno treaty. Stanley Bruce of Australia, as president oi the council, opened the meeting France and Belgium, he said, de- rnanded the meeting by telegram after the Rhineland occupation "This meeting has been summoned in response to the requests by the French and Belgian governments, he said, "and it is now our duty tc consider these communications.
 Then Eden Spoke
 Then Anthony Eden of Britain spoke as delegate of the host na. ton.
 Tn our view" he said, "a paten and incontestlble breach of thu treaties of Versailles and LocarnC has been committed"
 He promised the absolute co. operation of his majesty's govern. ment to establish peace and under. standing between the nations ot Europe on a firm basis"
 Then Paul Van Zeeland of Bel. gium rose quietly and made thu most moving speech of the day speaking softly and almost sadly. Belgium, he pointed out. had nt part in the French Russian alliance which was Germany's excuse fol the Rhineland move. Yet German troops are on Belgium's frontier too.
 Belgium" he said. "never gavs Germany the slightest excuse tS Eepudiate Locarno."
 With No Bitterness
 He said that his country wal ready to participate in European gec0nsanction. In talking of Ger. r-''y he said that his country ap- ltaicd to the Gbancil "in e spirit of profound sadness, without bitter. nRssS