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...little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, stood Defense Minister Gessler of the Reich, last week, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr, and some seventy of the highest officers of the German Army. Before them a body of infantry "advanced" toward the town in "war games." Lest the maneuvers should lack reality a battery of heavy machine guns, planted out of sight behind the officers, prepared to lay down a "protective barrage" before the infantry as it advanced...
...Rhineland Security Treaty consists of ten articles, and opens with the following preamble: President of the Republic of France, the President of the Reich, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy?anxious to satisfy the desire for security and protection which animates the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the War of 1914-1918; taking note of the abrogation of the treaties for the neutralization of Belgium, and conscious...
Under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg the Cabinet of the Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development...
...Reichswehr to participate, if the unveiling was "unofficial"? Herr Gessler declared that a formal pledge was given him that the ceremony would be nonpolitical, and stuck to that alibi. Said the Socialist sheetlet Vorwaerts: "The monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither Hindenburg the man nor his high office...
...Allied troops being mobilized across Germany to attack Russia; and that Germany would evade any Allied desire to impose such obligations upon her at Locarno, if she could. Meanwhile would not Minister Tchitcherin please be quiet, and accept for his country a 100 million gold mark credit which the Reich Cabinet had just rushed through in the form of a Russo-German trade treaty...