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...terms of the White Paper Germany was not to erect fortifications in the Rhineland. Last week news that Adolf Hitler had ordered the most intensive German efforts to build fortifications in the Rhineland as fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither...
Brazenly the Turkish Government announced that if Germany was not punished for remilitarizing the Rhineland in violation of treaties, Turkey would proceed to similar violations and remilitarize the Dardanelles with heaviest fortifications...
Briton against Briton? With the Rhineland crisis thus tangled some European wiseacres believed a story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop had banged his fist on Mr. Anthony Eden's desk and uttered threats. The most painstaking and detached analysis of the situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party...
...tired-looking Anthony Eden finally rose to speak. He had spent the week-end in the country with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. On his return to London he had participated in folding up the Council of the League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet again in Geneva...
...arbiters!" declared the Foreign Secretary. "We are guarantors of a treaty. We have certain commitments and they are very definite. . . . The demilitarized [Rhineland] zone embodied in the Versailles Treaty was for time without limit. It was an enduring undertaking...