DEFENCE OF HOARE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1935, Page 11

DEFENCE OF HOARE

GOVERNMENT RREPARING

OIL SANCTIONS NOT

PRACTICAL

(British Official Wireless and Unllcd Tress Association.) LONDON, December 14. The Foreign Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) will be in his place in the House of Commons next Thursday for the debate on the present situation in relation to the Italo-Abyssinian war. , The Opposition may decide not to move a vote of censure, but a motion in less controversial terms so as to allow members on Government benches greater freedom to express their anxiety regarding recent developments, which is widespread among members of all parties, and of the existence of which in the constituencies they continue' to repeive clear evidence. A number of right-wing Conservatives have tabled a motion in support of the Government's peace efforts. The "Sunday Dispatch" expects that whether or not Labour members move a vote of censure Mr. Baldwin will make the issue in the debate on Thursday a vote of confidence. Mr. Baldwin is preparing a strong defence of Sir Samuel Hoare's share in the discussions, and as far as possible will take Parliament into his confidence as to why the Government sought an early end to the* war. It is believed that it was on account of the position of the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, and that the unwillingness of the other Powers to honour their responsibilities greatly influenced the decision. Meanwhile, whatever the fate of the peace plan, Mr. Baldwin has made up his mind that oil sanctions are not practical politics.