FOREIGN POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 113, 16 May 1938, Page 13

FOREIGN POLICY.

GENEVA UTTERANCES.

MR. JORDAN ATTACKED.

CRITICISM BV MR. DOIDGE.

(From Our Correspondent.) TAUKANGA, Sunday. "We will bring Mr. Jordan's job to an end next November, when the Socialist Government will be driven out of office. In the meantime, Mr. Jordan should be told that it his job not to eell munitions in Madrid, but to sell butter in Tooley Street," declared Mr. F. W. Doidge, National party candidate for Tauranga, in referring to recent utterances at Geneva by Mr. W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, in an address at Oropi.

Mr. Doidge eaid that owe again at Geneva Mr. Jordan had blundered. It was the policy of Mr. Chamberlain and the British Government to keep Britain out of war. It was Mr. Chamberlain's policy, as far as possible, to keep Britain clear of the feud*; and intrigues of the Continent and to keep clear of the niadlouse which was Europe. "At Geneva last Thursday Lord Halifax, Britain's Foreign Secretary, made it unequivocally plain that Britain is determined upon a policy of non-inter-vention in Spain," added Mr. Doidge. "The French delegate at Geneva supported Britain's Foreign Secretary, but New Zealand's delegate, Mr. Jordan, saw fit to denounce Britain's policy emphatically. New Zealand, according to Mr. Jordan, wants to cut right across the policy of the British Foreign Office, and also, according to Mr. Jordan, wante intervention. Intervention means war— a £iiro]>caii war—and that is the course to which Mr. Jordan would commit Uβ. "But there is another aspect of Mr. Jordan's activities at Geneva which must not be lost sight of," continued Mr. Doidge. "Mr. Jordan speaks in the name of New Zealand, and to the people of Britain is conveyed the idea that New Zealand is a disaffected unit of the Empire. To the people of foreign countries is conveyed the impression that New Zealand ie a disloyal member of the British Commonwealth of Nations. "Every New Zealander. knows that this is a wickedly wrong impression to create. New Zealand to-day;' is ae intensely loyal to the Motherland as she was in 1014. If Britain were in danger; the manhood of New Zealand would rally to her assistance ae spontaneously as in 1014, but Britain -will not be in danger as. long as ehe keeps clear of quarrels, and refuses to be drawn into a policy of interventions and of sanctions."