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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1938.
LORD HALIFAX DEFENDS
ALHAMBRA POLICY: NOTHING WEAK
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ZEPPELIN SHED COLLAPSE
IN TOLERATION
London, To-day.
The Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, addressing the Foreign Press Association luncheon yester- day, declared there was nothing weak in a spirit of toleration or a desire to avoid war by ex- hausting every means diplomacy offers.
The British nation, he said, în- tended to be strong and would go fon building up its strength in order to make its voice powerfully heard in the councils of Europe.
It would be a very serious and dangerous error to think there was any fundamental cleavage between the Government and people of Bri- tain on matters of foreign policy- Reuter.
BAROMETER STEADY
Trans-Ocean adds that Lord Halifax said it was a good au- gury that he had nothing new to say, as during the last few weeks the barometer had re- mained stationary.
EVANGELICAL
CHURCH AND AUSTRIAN COUP
Berlin, To-day..
It is reported from Vienna that the Supreme Council of the Evan- gelical Church has prepared a state- ment to be read publicly, uncondi- tionally supporting the anschluss as "not only a duty but an expression of sincere gratitude to the gracious God for the rescue of our homės
No nation suspected Britain off and country.” harbouring aggressive intentions
The Chairman of the Council has
but it was undoubtedly necessary also issued a statement declaring to make it quite clear that Britai that Herr Hitler, "by his life, has could never adopt an attitude of given the German people an exam- indifference towards aggression ple of true and active Christianity." elsewhere.
ENGLISHMAN AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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ANSCHLUSS APPEAL
Vienna, To-day. The Austrian Evangelical Church
The Foreign Secretary was ad- has appealed to Austrians to vote dressing the Foreign Press Asso-for the anschluss on April 10. ciation at a luncheon în his honouri A message from the Church will and said the average Englishman's be read from all pulpits on Sunday. outlook on foreign affairs was apt Trans-Ocean.
not infrequently, to be rather
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puzzle to the inhabitants of Con-tural processes do their work-de- tinental countries. It often seemering what they could to preserve to many foreigners that the English their standards at Home.
were rather inscrutable and ir
times of crisis he thought they must
NEVER ALOOF
be more incrutable than usual be
This attitude was based on stern- cause at such times they were aply practical considerations. The Eng- to keep a strict rein on their emo-ish people had never remained and
tions.
could never remain aloof from what But, he ventured think, the En-
was happening in Europe. They glish attitude to foreign affair had movements or moods in which was guided by a perfectly san they liked to persuade themselves process of thought and reason. In shat they would like keep out of it, Britain they had come to adop but when it came down to hard certain standards of conduct and facts they were far too sensible to of relations between individuals et those moods colour their judg- which they were inclined to regard ment
One thing the English people dîs- liked and distrusted and - no one
as of general application. Thes standards sometimes failed and were discarded as unsuitable for would have any success who tried political emergency and the Eit with them was to be told too glish were apt, when that occurred, clearly what was going to happen in to be horrified and shocked.
advance
NOT DOMINATING
-No matter how cogently one might argue, he would never convince the "At such moments," *
continued English people to the point of action. Lord Halifax, voices are raiser "I do not say he would always be clamouring that we should inter-wrong or the English people would vene in a disordered world and put always be right. But I think that everything straight and change ar is a fact”. order different from our own into
something which we could recog- REASONABLENESS PLUS nise as English These voices are In conclusion, the Foreign Serre- extremely land at times and are, Itary said: "There is something more the believe, sincere, but they are not than sweet reasonableness in dominating factor in our foreign English character. There is some- relations.
thing a good deal tougher and more He went on to say that British robust and something that will al- foreign policy, as he understood it ways have to be reckoned with if was not directed so much to to our reasonableness is misunderstood. morrow as to a later day of which There is, I think, nothing weak in of the scaffolding of the second yet taken definite shape.
Three were killed when a section sometimes the outlines had not as the desire to avoid war by exhaust- Zeppelin shed now under construc- Therefore, the British GoverThere should be no misunderstand- ing every means diplomacy offers. tion, collapsed yesterday.
ment did not rush in with unim ing, however. I do not believe there Cause of the accident is not yet and hastily concocted remedio is any misunderstanding. British
-Ocean'
They thought it wiser to allow ng-Wircless,
Friedrichshafen, To-day.
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