BRITISH PARTY FOR GENEVA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22194, 10 September 1937, Page 13

BRITISH PARTY FOR GENEVA

ATTITUDE TO PIRACY DEFINED NO ROOM FOR RECRIMINATIONS OR PARTISANSHIP (BRITISH OFFICIAL -WIRELESS.) RUGBY, September 8. The advance party of the United Kingdom delegation to the League meeting at Geneva left London this morning. The Foreign Secretary (M Eden), who will lead the delegation to the Assembly at Geneva, and also the delegation to the Nyon Conference, at which |- he will discuss piracy m the Mediterranean, will leave London to-mor-row by air for Paris, where he will be the guest at a dinner of the Prime Minister (M. Ghautemps), M. Delbos. and M, Leon Blum. In London there is no suggestion of any change in the plans for the conference, as a result of the tension which has arisen between Italy and Russia. Tht keynote of the press comment this morning on the conferee is that its object is severely practicable, and that the urgency of its task and the common interest of all Powers in its accomplishment leave no room for recriminations and partisanship. “The Times” thinks that the divisions between the Powers, according to their political sympathies, is already serious enough. It says. “The procedure now offered is designed to restrict those divisions by concentrating international effort upon a practical task. Is any country prepared ■to defend the sinking of unarmed merchantmen, at sight, _

and—if anything could heighten its barbarism—in time of peace? If not, what remains but complete technical measures for its prevention? Nyon is offered as a meeting place for action, not recriminations.” “The Times” and the “Morning Post” make it clear that if doubts and suspicions delay or prevent the acceptance of the invitations to the conference, Britain will have no recourse but to adopt drastic independent measures for the safety of her shipping.