A MOMENTOUS DEBATE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 11

A MOMENTOUS DEBATE

BRITAIN’S EUROPEAN POLICY DECISIONS FOR HOUSE OF COMMONS GERMANY’S “INCREASING TRUCULENCE” (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received June 19, 2 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. Not since the debate leading to the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare has Westminster been the centre of such European attention. It is generally considered abroad that the decisions of the House of Commons this afternoon vdll decide the course of European policy. The diplomatic correspondent of the “Morning Post’’ understands that the principal cause of the Jabinet’s decision to propose the removal of sanctions is the increasing truculence of Germany.

It is understood that Sir Robert Vansittart (Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs) has informed the French Ambrssador that the possibility of a rapprochement with Germany is more remote than ever. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says Germany is watching Westminster with cynical detachment. There is little chance that the Nazi foreign policy will fulfil British hopes. It seems that the tendency is more in the direction of expansion at the expense of the states of Eastern Europe.