TALKS IN BRUSSELS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9

TALKS IN BRUSSELS

PROMISE OF GOOD RESULTS

FUTURE OF EUROPE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received April 23, 10.45 a.m.)

RUGBY, April 28.

British newspapers, without exception share the view that the Foreign Secretary's visit to Brussels was as valuable as it was cordial and that the 'conversations Mr. Eden had there promise good results for the future of Europe. These contacts were not an occasion for negotiation, but served to enable the.statesmen to develop in outline various constructive ideas" for turning, in the words of "The Times," "the will to closer international collaboration, wherever it exists, to good account in the coming months." One point that has evidently created a very favourable impression in Great Britain is the unquestionable. determination of the Belgian Government to remain faithful to the League Cove-nant-—a matter that has been placed beyond all doubt. The hope is expressed that the conversations will prove a hopeful prelude to wider European negotiations in the near future and that these will mark the ■beginning of a new period of inter-national-co-operation. "MOST ENCOURAGING." The "News Chronicle" describes Mr. Eden's visit to Brussels as "One of the most satisfactory and encouraging visits abroad that the Foreign Secretary has ever made." "The Times" thinks that after a further period of detailed study by the British and Belgian Foreign Offices, initiative which would base itself on a new programme of negotiation may be expected for.the general purpose of creating security between Belgium and her great neighbours in the East and the West. The "Manchester Guardian" says that the .insistence with which the Belgian Ministers emphasised the determination of their Government to.remain faithful to the League was thoroughly ; appreciated by Mr. Eden. . The "Daily Telegraph" thinks' that the conversations are likely to. be carried a stage further when Mr. Eden, M. Delbos (France). M. Spaak (Belgium), and other Foreign Ministers meet at Geneva for the special meeting fixed for the last week' of next month. -