SHARP CRITICISM

Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11

SHARP CRITICISM

THE HOARE-UVAL CRISIS HATIBSAL LABOUR MEMBERS' VIEWS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 3. (Received January 4, at 10.5 a.m.) The Manchester * Guardian’s ’ political correspondent says the first indication of the attitude of the National Labour members .of Cabinet to the Hoare-Laval crisis appears in an article in the National Labour paper ‘Newsletter,’ which, .if not actually written by Mr Ramsay MacDonald, carries his approval and contains some of the sharpest criticisms ofMr Baldwin and Sir Samuel Hoare voiced in or out of Parliament. It deplores Mr Baldwin s promise to abandon personal contacts between Foreign Ministers in favour of diplomacy through Ambassadors, and points out that the methods of old diplomacy are unsuited to _ a world where rapid action i? often vital. Personal contact between responsible Ministers should be one" of the most effective, aids to peace and understanding. The fact that the Hoare-Laval conference was singularly badly mishandled is no reason for condemning such meetings, except for the purpose of escaping from a tight corner. The ‘ Newsletter ’ disposes of Sir Samuel Hoare in a single sentence, saying that no Minister has the _ right to exceed instructions then claim as a shield joint Cabinet responsibility. The editor of the ‘ Newsletter ’ (Lord Elton) writes: “ Sir Samuel Hoare left the impression that the man was too tired and nervous for great affairs, and Mr Baldwin wielded no magician’s wand.”