MR. EDEN'S CONCERN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 7

MR. EDEN'S CONCERN.

Dangers of World Situation! Not Understood. NATIONAL EFFORT NEEDED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Mr. Anthony Eden, speaking at Leamington, referred to foreign affairs owing to his deep concern at the trend of events all over the world. "Unhappily neither tho political, trade! nor economic outlook," lie said, "justifies optimism, which it is even more dangerous to indulge in if we intend to preserve o">? liberties. "We are still far from understanding the extent of the dangers confronting us, and therein lies the chief cause for national anxiety. It is not in any failing of the British character or people. We can only avoid catastrophe by a gigantic, united, national effort sufficient to show nations still believing in the power of politics that force will (not profit the user."

"REMAIN MASTERS." Britain and U.S. Control Essentials of War. FRENCH GENERAL'S OPINION. LONDON, June 8. "The United States, by its supplies of petrol and its motor manufacturing, and the British Empire, by its maritime supremacy, remain masters." This is the opinion of General Serrigny, of France, in an article in the "Revue'des Deux Mondes," on petrol and I motorisation in a world war.

Despite appearances, lie holds, force is on the side of the .liberal, democratic nations; dissension, alone, could bring catastrophe. He points out that America produces three-fourths of the world's oil and that Russia and Rumania are the only European countries with important production, though he draws attention to Germany's production of oil from coal. Discussing sea-carriage, he points out that Norway's tanker tonnage is 1,856,250, as compared with Britain's 2,85G,804, America's 2,575,109, Italy's 350,804, France's 241,880, and Germany's 150,90 a. Germany's needs in the first year of a war, General Serrigny estimates at 12,000,000 tons. Her output in 1937, including Austria, was 485,000 tons, Poland's output was 510,000, Russia's 28,500,000, Rumania s 8,700,000, and France's 80.000. He remarks that Germany's army marches on motor engines. Vehicles built in 1937 were:—United States, 4 810 000; Britain, 508,000; Germany, 345,000; France, 207,000; Russia, 300,000; Italy, 77,000; Canada, 207,000.