THE EMPIRE AND THE LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 13 September 1927, Page 9

THE EMPIRE AND THE LEAGUE.

«ir AUSTEN CHAMBER- " GAIN'S SPEECH. fABIBD PRESS COMMENT. n»*Ll-r*" 8 ASSOCIATION—COrnHOHT.f (If jjjfm, AND S.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) I J m~ ived September 12th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, September 12. * Tie diplomatic correspondent of the .■Daily-Telegraph" states: "Sir Austen ttamberlain's speech is regarded in ' 'toeign diplomatic quarters as a lanur ' jj.ja the evolution of post-war SLin Uttered with the full weight SS authority of the Home Government and of every Dominion Govern2fnt'delegation, the speech said what ZL hitherto had the courage to say i Geneva—that the manhood of the ftnnire were not to ho indiscriminately for the benefit of other tennently quarrelsome nations. Sir &n Chamberlain disposed adnnr*ol 0 f sloppy internationalism. As IT/of Britain's most sagacious diplo'Skfe he said Britain had no desire to as the chief constable or the ■ Set dupe of the European Continent." &$ "Daily Express" says: "Sir Austen Chamberlain spoke as a British ' ftrei«n Minister should. The Empire Mnit be paramount and Europe and .sJs%ague secondary, though great Stats have been made to reverse the order of precedence." 'rtj B "Daily News" describes the Jech as singularly infelicitous, and ' Eg. "A firm resolve not to support i|» protocol does not necessitate piling the wel blanket on the activities '„{ the League." _.,... , Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, interviewed lythe "Daily Herald," said: '•Sir Austen Chamberlain's speech ras most unfortunate as it is calculated to increase Great Britain's diffi«kies in Europe. During the last tiree years we have been more isoWed. The Baldwin Government, toth in trade and its international policy, is giving the world to underbill that the Empire is unable to ifopt Itself to modern conditions. SftM could be nothing more awkward iilan the statement that the Geneva Protocol would disrupt the British Umpire. Anyhow, it is not true. We 'jbould leave" our enemies fc> say such tilings. We have gratuitously thrown jfjray our position in Europe." ■A • £ OPINION IN FRANCE. £ rjttfSTBALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION September 12th. 8 p.m.) ?f PARIS, September 12. c Sir Au&ten Chamberlain's speech has JfiftiWd some criticism, newspapers 'lofliplaining of the so-called narrowness ?rf Britain's policy. writing in the "Echo If Paris," translated the tenor of the aS, "May the League perish gtber than the British Empire." <i(U Liberte" says that Britain rejlfds the League in the light of a Mtfid liability company. 'Jlto Gaulois" describes the speech as mk to the point of brutality. ISLe Matin", states that the logic aolfe utterance is not comprehensible «|e French mind.