PACIFIED EUROPE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 9

PACIFIED EUROPE

BRITISH POLICY'S AIM

TASK OF STATESMANSHIP

CAPTAIN EDEN'S VIEW

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 23. A pacified Europe was the British objective, and for this Britain voluntarily undertook tho very serious obligation that resulted from tho Locarno Treaty, said Captain Anth-i ony Eden, Parliamentary Undcr-Sccre- ] tary for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Peterborough. It was no doubt the same motive, he said, that prompted Signor Mussolini to make his recent proposals for a Four Power Pact; an act of statesmanship for which Europe had every reason to be grateful. Captain Eden expressed the view that the problems of the Disarmament Conference were just those that had baffled post-war Europe and had played a significant part in every phase of history—the relationship of the Powers of Western Europe. If, for instance, he said, an- agreement could be reached between France and Germany on the basis of British draft convention, upon which the conference was now at work, other difficulties would no doubt adjust themselves round the nucleus of this common accord. Without such an agreement no real progress was possible, he continued. It was the task of British statesmanship to do all in its power to make such an agreement possible. If the nations could re-enter a period of European co-operation, progress would become possible in all the problems of international relations which today baffled statesmanship.