FOREIGN POLIGY CHIEF BRITISH AIMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

FOREIGN POLIGY CHIEF BRITISH AIMS

SOLVING POLISH PROBLEM Ree^ 12.45 p.m. RUGBY, October 3. ■ Sketching the main aims of British foreign policy at the conclusion of a debate in the House of Lords on the war situation today, Viscount Cranbourne, Leader of the House, said he thought the war was far from being over. There were three main aims in British foreign policy. The first wai to foster good relations between ourselves and our allies and assure that the United Nations are united.

The second is to help to put the occupied countries on their feet and encourage national Unity in those Countries where they have been distracted by, the strains ; they have undergone. The third aim is to assist in the proposals for ending this war and building up the post-war Hvorld. ■ Discussing the Polish question, Lord Cranbourne said that without solution Of that problem we would have no certain guarantee' that Britain, the United States, and Russia would be able to work togejjier. The Polish problem was not merely a problem affecting the war with Germany. It was a world problem of the first importance.

WAR CRIMINALS.

During the debate, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Simon, said the British Government Was determined that War criminals should not be permitted to find refuge in neutral countries from the consequences of their crimes and the Government had made' it clear that it would regard such.'shelter as a violation of friendship. Argentina had. given a definite assurance that war. criminals would not be allowed to shelter there. Nevertheless, the Government would continue to use every means in its power to satisfy itself that; guilty persons should not be able to reach Argentina, or any other destination outside Europe. All methods of control were being used to keep a check on such persons arid their property.—B.O.W.