TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 11

TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

Sweden’s Foreign Minister

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received March 17, 5 p.m.)

Rugby, March 16. The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. J. Sandler, who is at present the guest of the British Government, to-day visited the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at Downing Street, and was afterward the guest of the Lord Mayor at a Mansion House luncheon in his honour. In a Press statement, Mr. Sandler made cordial reference to the long friendship between Britain and Sweden. and their many mutual interests, lie mentioned that the trade exchange between die two countries on the basis of the 1933 agreement bad progressed as never before, and this satisfactory development could lie expected to continue.

Mr. Sati'dler expressed his appreciation of Britain’s continued support of the League of Nations, and said that if the League was to fulfil its high ideals it was important to remember Mr. Eden’s words about the connection between efficiency and elasticity. “I would like to add.” he said, “that a strong Britain constitutes a bastion of peace in the world. No feelings of uneasiness can have been caused in my country by the report that Britain is now strengthening her forces.”