BRITISH EFFORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 9

BRITISH EFFORTS

BASIS OF FRANK RECIPROCITY

ADDRESS TO YOUTH

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received February 14, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, February-12. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony speaking at a Junior Imperial League demonstration at Birmingham, said that difficulties ' in the present state of the world were bound at times' to seem overwhelming' if it were* not jor the' sympathy and understanding of the younger generation. The Government today must strive in its' foreign policy "not only for peace in our time, but for 'peace in yours." This meant, he said, that there must be no sacrifice of principles and shirking of responsibilities merely

to obtain quick results that might not

be permanent. ■ "In, a changing' world there is one ■thing which does not change—the qualities which have created for Britain the national position it holds in the world today," he said. "Those who take a pessimistic' view of our future would do well to study'again the records of our past and to note the constant reassertation of that same Brit-

ish character which, despite failures ■ and defects, has made our history. So i long as that remain true and unimpaired there is no cause for pessimism or defeatism." "FRIENDSHIP TO, ALL." While,they in Britain were ready to make their contribution to strengthen peace,, it was well understood that ■'others must make their contribution too. "We offer friendship to all, but on equal terms, for it is not by seeking to buy temporary good will that peace is made but on a basis of frank reciprocity with" mutual respect," he proceeded, "Great importance attaches to the attitude of those,, who; have grown up in these troubled^tinies when the world is beset with so many anxieties. Mr. Eden said that youth' move"ments in Britain were inevitably different from those' in the totalitarian States, but among the voluntary associations which existed there was ample scope for% wider and. ever wider serviced the State. "Democracy has its objectives arid must pursue them ,in its own way. This does not mean de-

fiance or antagonism towards other a countries. Friendship between demo- * cracies and dictatorships must not become impossible. We do not wish tp see

a lasting.-cleavage of democracies ranging themselves against dictatorships. I 'feel that the future rests with.you to concentrate not on differences but on what is common Jo both."