Evening star., 1936-03-27
REICH EM|SSARy
TALKS WITH EDEN
Won Ribbentrop Reported
Disturbed by Military
Threat in Speech.

March z in Utoldtton OF Versailles
treaty and Locarno pact.
France threatened military ac-
tion, but Britain's compromising
attitude, ho,oeuer, opened the pay
for deliberations.
At London conference q plan
sOas drafted for settlement ard sub
nitted for Hitler's approval. The
drastic plan brought protests from
Germany, but the remaining Lo-
acarno poiDers, Britain, France, Bel
gium and Italy. threatened to form
q military alliance II Hitler refused
to consider proposals to re-establtsh
security OF Europe.
copyright. 1886. by the Associated Press)
LONDON, March 27.-Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, seeking Great Britain's
latest word before returning to Berlin
to report to Adolf Hitler on the Rhine
land crisis negotiations, conferred with
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today
at the foreign office
Informed sources said the Reich
emissary sought an explanation of
parts of Eden's speech to the House
Of Commons yesterday, in which the
foreign secretary warned Germany a
conciliatory gesture of some kind was
necessary to solve the Rhineland i'm
passe, but also advised France to try
to deal with Der Fuehrer with an
open mind.
Hitler's ambassador at large was
understood to be perturbed by some
sections Of Eden's address, reaf-
f1rmation Of Britain's obligations under
the Locarno pact which was acclaimed
generally by the British as the great
est of his career.
Will Question Eden.
The German delegation, it was un-
derstood. was disturbed by the en-
phasis Eden laid on the military un-
derstanding among the Locarno pow
ers, in contrast to the comparatively
fleeting references to the proposals
Hitler has extended for new treaties.
Faced by disclosure that the feel
ing of the House of Commons was
apparently less warm for Germany
than had been popularity supposed,
Won Ribbentrop was expected to ques-
ton Eden concerning certain points
in his speech before returning to
Berlin.
Der Fuehrer's special ambassador.
sent to London to participate in the
deliberations of the Locarno powers
and the League of Nations Council.
decided to go back to Berlin for Sun
days Reichstag election, called by
Hitler to approve his occupation of
the Rhineland and denunciation of
the Locarno pact.
All British parties praised Eden's
foreign policy statement. Declaring
Britain stood by its Locarno pledge to
be ready to fight for France and Bel
GUM if they were attacked by Ger
many. But calling on the Reich for
some new conciliatory move.
Political Quarters Surprised.
The foreign secretary's address sur
prised political quarters by its demands
that France have an open mind, as
well by the call for Germany to do
something to allay the anxieties of
Europe"
Eden's success was considered espe-
cially noteworthy by parliamentary
leooies IN view of the fact that large
section of the Commons approached
yesterdays debate in a critical mood.
The result Of Eden's statement and
the House of Commons debate were
interpreted authoritatively to mean a
strengthening of the British govern
ment attitude in looking to GERMANY
for substantial assistance in building
a new peace structure.
Wartime Prime Minister David
Lloyd George, leading the Liberal op-
position to the government in debate.
warned against what he called dangers
In a military pact with France under
the Locarno plan for a Rhineland
settlement.
Military pacts "precipitated war in
1914 and will do 1t again If you enter
into one" he declared.
Refers to War Debts.
Bringing up Britain's failure to pay
its war debt In full to the United
States. Lloyd George asserted Hitler's
greatest crime was not a breach of
treaty"
Every country, including our own,
has found their war bonds of one kind
or another too irksome and too bur-
denSome to carry"
Virtually every speaker succeeding
Lloyd George criticized him for an
alleged pro-German attitude because
he felt that treaties, including that of
Versailles which demilitarized the
Rhineland, were open to revision.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, former
foreign secretary. contested vigorously
Lloyd Georges placing of Britain in
the same position as the Nazi Reich.
Germany was not physically un-
able to maintain the demilitarization
Of the zone as we were physically un-
able to continue payments to America,
which could only be made in gold"
Chamberlain declared.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville
Chamberlain, concluding the debate
last night, supported Eden in his re-
affirmation of Britain's Locarno stand,
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