FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMONS DEB4TF,
SIR J. SIMON REPLIES
END SOONER THAN WAS
EXPECTED
(United Prens Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received March 25, 2.40 p.m.)
LONDON, March 24.
Members on the back benches continued rambling discussion on foreign affairs in the House of Commons until the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, wound up the debate earlier than was expected, saying that the Prime Minister had good reason to be satisfied with the reception of his speech. Mr. Chamberlain's answer on the issue whether Britain should now, in advance, give a further contractual assurance of military action, specifically in relation to Czechoslovakia, was that Britain could not give that prior guarantee. "That declaration," said Sir John Simon, "is clear and unambiguous. One of Britain's greatest-assets is her reputation for keeping her word. We must not give it unless we can be sure it will be kept." Sir John Simon criticised Mr. Winston Churchill's proposal as aspiring to a grand alliance or an open defensive alliance with certain Powers. These ideas were contrary to the conception behind the League of Nations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 12
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