BEFORE ADJOURNING

Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 13

BEFORE ADJOURNING

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS

LONDON, April 9. In the House of Commons, under wide licence, on the motion for the. Easter adjournment, Mr. P. W. Donna {Conservative) , urged filling up the granaries in case of emergency. Mr R J. G. Boothby (Conservative) interposed with a strong criticism of Mr. Eden's speech at Geneva on April 8 He said he could not understand the point of the speech. If the chance was gone of achieving unanimity at the League it would be kinder for the Abyssinians to face up to that lact instead of leading'them up a garden path and prolonging the ghastly war, and, still worse, severing Britain from France. . ■ Dr E Leslie Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, replying, said that the question of food independence was of staggering magnitude. He promised to look in detail into Mr. Dormer's suggestion, but the problem of food supplies to stand a siege as distinct from temporary interruption was something far bigger than any he could contemplate. Viscount Cranbourne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary ■ for Foreign Affairs, said Mr. Eden had pressed most strongly at Geneva for the policy outlined in his speech last Monday. If conciliation was without result, it would be a question of calling the Committee of Eighteen together. If the use of gas was not abolished it would almost end civilisation. It was an issue of the utmost urgency. ; The House adjourned till April 21.