EMPIRE AT GENEVA

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 10

EMPIRE AT GENEVA

CHAMBERLAIN'S TRIBUTE

TO DOMINIONS' LOYALTY

EEPLY TO LLOYD GEORGE.

(United Press Association—Copyright, j • (Reuter's TelesruroJ (Received 24th March, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 23rd March. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, following on the speech of Mr. Lloyd George attacking him for his conduct of affairs at Geneva, said that he wished to pay a debt that was pressing him- strongly. He said that as the Assembly was meeting simultaneously with the Council there were representatives of the Dominions and India at Geneva. He was in the closest touch and consultation with them. The whole Seven Nations met almost daily in his room, and confidential communications passed more than once daily. He desired to express his debt t< them for their sympathy and support in one of the most difficult tasks or the most difficult task that had ever been his lot to confront. Sir Austen categorically denied that when he interviewed M. Briand on his return from Italy that he entered into any engagement regarding Polish claims or anything else. Neither had he instigated or encouraged M. Briand to press the Polish claim. Sir Austen Chamberlain said that Mr. Lloyd George had professed to come to the Houst as an open-minded, distressed inquirer, but "he did not await even my arrival from Geneva before he telegraphed to the American Press his 'condemnation of Chamberlain's action and his suspicion of Chamberlain's honour.' "