PRIVATE VIEWS?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 7

PRIVATE VIEWS?

LABOUR QUERIES. Commons Questions on Speech By Mr. Chamberlain. MR. BALDWIN EVASIVE. British Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, June 11. The reported statement by. the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding sanctions was the subject of a question addressed by private notice to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons this afternoon by the Leader of the Opposition, Major Attlee, who asked whether Mr. Chamberlain's speech represented the policy of the Government. Mr. Baldwin replied that the Chancellor had informed him that the suggestions ho put forward were definitely stated by him to be provisional reliections on the Italo-Ethiopian dispute which had occurred to him personally. Mr. Attlee then asked if the views expressed by the Chancellor were the considered views of the Government. The Prime Minister answered that no conclusions on these matters had yet been reached. Pressed by leaders of both sections of the Opposition to say if this expression of private views by the Minister was consistent with tradition and constitutional usage, and was not embarrassing to other Ministers, Mr. Baldwin replied: ""1 make no complaint myself of what the right honourable gentleman said." FEATURED IN ITALY. BRITISH BLOW TO SANCTIONS. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. Italian newspapers give prominence to Mr. Chamberlain's speech, declaring that it is the severest blow yet struck by a British politician against the maintenance of sanctions.