GENERAL POLICY IN FAR EAST

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 262, 3 August 1939, Page 9

GENERAL POLICY IN FAR EAST

Britain’s Consistency Emphasized LONDON. August 1. Points from the speech of the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, bearing on the position in the Far East in the House of Commons debate on foreign affairs are understood to be incorporated in a full statement analysing and reaffirming the British policy toward China which has been sent to the British Ambassador in China, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, for transmission to Chungking. It makes it clear that Britain’s attempt to face facts in North China in no way implies that its policy is being altered. The Press gives prominence to the passage in which Mr. Chamberlain explicitly denied some of the more flagrant misrepresentations of the formula reached in the Tokio negotiations, and in particular to the assurance that it does not make any change of policy. France has been kept fully informed of the British attitude toward the situation in the Far East. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John .Simon, stated in the House in reply to a question that the formula agreed upon at Tokio did not imply any change in Britain’s views as to the desirability of maintaining the stability of the Chinese currency in the interests of Britain and other countries which have important financial and trade interests in China.