BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY
AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS MR CHAMBERLAIN
ADHERENCE TO LEAGUE STILL FIRMLY CLAIMED
CANBERRA. April 28.. The Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons), in a statement in the House of Representatives on foreign affairs, said that although there had been an easing in the tension of the international situation there was still cause ■ for anxiety. Points in Mr Lyons’s statement were;— Australia supported Mr Chamberlain in his dispute with Mr Eden. Australia still adheres firmly to the policy of support of the League of Nations. Australia had impressed on the British Government that it believed that the reopening of talks with Italy was of the utmost importance. The Commonwealth Government adheres to the policy of strict neutrality and non-intervention in the internal disputes of other counTh'e Labour leader, Mr J. Curtin, demanded that the foreign policy should be debated before the defence programme was discussed. He accused Mr Lyons_ of trying to create a war hysteria in Australia, from -which profiteers would reap a harvest.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22388, 29 April 1938, Page 11
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