UNITED EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 9

UNITED EUROPE.

FOUR YEARS' WORK.

Old Prejudices Supplanted By

Amity.

BALDWIN'S REVIEW,

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12 noon.)

RUGBY, November 23.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, in his address at the party meeting at Glasgow last night devoted his speech mainly to a discussion on domestic affairs. He prefaced his remarks, however, with a brief review of the changes effected in the international situation in the past four years. These years, he said, had seen Europe, which had been divided into two hostile camps, become at any rate a united Europe to an extent that there was no longer any definition of Allies or exenemies, but a spirit that was bringing all countries, irrespective of the past, into closer contact and into amiable discussion and communion. This was designed to help Europe as a whole to meet the future. No individual had contributed more to that than Sir Austen Chamberlain. The League of Nations bad played its part in this, that the statesmen of Europe had now become accustomed, in place of hurling dispatches at one another across the frontier, to meet in a friendly conversation.

They had learned by that that other nations had a point of view which was not only worthy in itself of consideration, but which must be considered if there was to be any possibility of agreement on outstanding questions that might seem to those trained in business methods platitudinous and elementary.

It had taken the Great War to teach the statesmen of Europe that lesson. There was to-day in Europe a spirit of give and take which was absent before the war. To have reached such a state of things within ten years of the war was an achievement that held hope of future betterment, amelioration and happiness for the people of Europe.