THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1989.
Mr.
Lloyd George Gives
Page
Grim Picture Of
Of The Crisis
STRONG CRITICISM
OF FAILURE TO AGREE WITH SOVIET
London, To-day.
Mr. Lloyd George, the veteran Liberal leader, at- tacked the Government in characteristic man- ner during the foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons yesterday.
Mr. Lloyd George declared that the totalitarian powers had conquered Spain, which was the key to the world's most important waterway. They had occupied Albania, which was of first class strategic importance in the Balkans, and in consequence they were now predominant in the Balkan Peninsula.
The Adriatic had been transform- ed into a strongly fortified naval base.
The totalitarian powers had se- cured the friendship of Hungary and Bulgaria, while Yugo-Slavia was compelled by the annexation of Albania to adopt an attitude of
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Mr. Butler's Reply To The Debate
London, To-day.
benevolent neutrality towards them. Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign
The British Government had been content to watch these developments without making an attempt to win over the Soviet Union.
HOUR CRITICAL
While admitting the importance
of the Anglo-Turkish
Pact,
Mr.
Affairs, replied to the debate on foreign affairs in the House of Commons yesterday.
OVERLOOKING OF HITLER'S TOUR UPSETS GERMANY
LONDON, TO-DAY. WHILE MUSSOLINI AGAIN VISITED THE ITALIAN FORTI-
ALONG FICATIONS
THE
FRENCH FRONTIER IN THE COURSE OF A TOUR OF PIED- MONT, HITLER LAST NIGHT ISSUED FROM EFRINGEN A COMMUNIQUE AT THE CLOSE OF HIS SIX-DAY INSPECTION OF THE GERMAN WESTERN | FORTIFICATIONS.
The communique stated that Hit- ler was convinced the German forti- fications are impregnable.
A Berlin message says that com- plaints have been heard there that Hitler's tour has not received. adequate publicity abroad.
This, explains the newspaper "Zwolf-Uhr Blatt," is due to the fact that German defence is 2
subject too uncomfortable to Bri- tish policy to be gone into.-Reuter.
Mr Butler said he had heard it suggested that if The public are reminded that
there was aggression in the Mediterranean, Turkey would not move a ship or a man unless there was an agreement with Russia.
Lloyd George declared that no pact That was misreading the declaration to which
could be adequate for its purpose unless British rearmament were in- creased.
The totalitarian powers had a population of 150,000,000, which was equal to the maximum that the British and French Empires could muster.
The present hour was most critical, and therefore the British Government's most urgent task was to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union.
key had put her name.
Mr. Butler declared that British recognition of the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia by Germany was not under consideration.
Britain had told Russia that the British Government considers their policy better suited to the circum- stances of the moment, and that the British plan, though less com- wa's prehensive than the Russian, better designed to give effective Britain, France, Turkey and the support where it was most needed. Soviet together could marshal Meanwhile, careful and sympa- sufficient number of troops to causethetic consideration to the Soviet the Dictators to reflect before tak-views was being given, and the ing the risk of a new aggression, negotiations were continuing.' which would in the long run spell Reuter. disaster for them.
DILATORY
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Mr. C. R. Attlee, leader of the Labour Opposition, criticised
the
Government's policy with regard to the Soviet, which in his view was too dilatory.
AMBASSADOR DUE
AT HANOI TO-DAY
Macao, To-day.
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Whereas Moscow advocated the Official Chinese messages state that the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, arrived
yester- Kunming at about 1 p.m. day. He will depart. by air on a Eurasia plane for Hanoi this morn- ing-Our Own Correspondent.
principle of collective security against every aggression, Downing Street saw things only in the light of British interests and asked the Soviet for a one-sided guarantee of assistance-Trans-Ocean.
NEW J.P.S.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the fol- lowing to be Justice, of the Pence for the Colony of Hong Kong:-
Official: Mafor James Lugard Willcocks, D.S.O.; M.C.
Unofficial: Dr. Chau Shek-nin, Mr. Archibald Ritchie, Mr. Duncan
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the fol- lowing, appointment in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, effect from 26th April, with 1989:-Dr. Edward William Stout, M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), to be Lieuten-
ant.
Empire Day, Wednesday, 24th of that all educational establishments, May, 1939, is a public holiday and de- offices and Government
dinary business on that day.
Tur-partments will not be open for or-
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