BRITAIN'S HOPE FOR NINE POWER CONFERENCE SUCCE Mr. Anthony Eden's House
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London, To-day.
"If the meeting of the Nine-Power Conference can achieve the paramount desire of everybody to see ended the slaughter, suffering and misery of which we are witnesses in China to-day and our view is that such a Conference offers the best chance of achieving it then it will have rendered the greatest possible service.
"If it fails, then we will enter into a new situa- tion which we shall have to contemplate. -
"The British Government will enter the Con- ference with a determination to do everything in their power to assure the success of its labours.
These were the final comments of Mr. Anthony Eden on the crisis in the Far East during the debate, on foreign affairs on reassembly of the House of Commons yesterday.
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DEFINITE MANDATE
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The Foreign Secretary, Mr. An-flict we had actually initiated con-mendation of the sub-committee on atiation of the Conference, thony Eden, initiating the debate, sultations with the Japanese Gov- the said, at the outset: "In two parts ernment which might have led to and commented that it would seem of the world, far removed from the a programme of international co- from this that the mandate was a other, in South-Western Europe and operation with the Chinese Govern- definite "Nam ment, naturally for an improvement the Far East, wars are raging.”
Describing the European situa- in relations and the development other tion first, Mr. Eden emphasised of trade.
will com inter-moment
that in the Spanish conflict the Bri- These conversations were tish Government's determination rupted immediately the comfict was to concentrate on what was broke out, and resumption is clearing possible, by a combination of pa- ly impossible in the present cir tience and persistence and even at cumstances. the risk of criticism and misrepre sentation, to localise the war and to watch over British interests.
VITAL INTERESTS
Non-intervention in Spain must
SETTLEMENT EFFORTS
Mr. Eden gave a condensed ac count of the efforts made to secure a settlement.
In all the British efforts the Gov- be sharply distinguished from in- ernment had kept in the closest difference to the territorial, inte- touch with the governments grity of Spain and our Imperial other countries particularly con communications through the Medi- cerned, terranean.
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“There will be no indifference on the part of the Government where
The views of these Governments either and the action we had taken,
it is clear that vital British inter- with the Japanese or Chinese Gov- ests are threatened."
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British rearmament bore in it substantially similiar in charac neither overt nor latent strains of revenge, either in the Mediterran- ean or anywhere else.
NINE-POWER CONFERENCE Mr. Eden recalled the League discussions on the Far East and -Such sentiments were wholly the initiation of the Nine-Power alien to the British character, and Conference at Brussels on October even were the Government to har-130.
bour them which it does not
He hoped shortly to announce.
the British people would never be the names of the British delegates willing to give effect to them.
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