FATE OF SANCTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22365, 15 June 1936, Page 9

FATE OF SANCTIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S POLICY MR CHAMBERLAIN’S SPEECH AROUSES WIDE INTEREST (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, June 13. (Received Juno 15, at noon.) The newspapers give considerable prominence to the discussion aroused by the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at a political dinner on Wednesday evening, in which the Prime Minister subsequently explained in the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain had put forward suggestions with regard to ending League sanctions, which were “ provisional reflections on the Italo-Ethiopian dispute which had occurred to him (Air Chamberlain) personally.” Despite Mr Baldwin’s additional comment that the Government had as yet reached no conclusion on the matters discussed by Mr Chamberlain in what was practically an impromptu address to an “ exclusive and. politically educated audience.” there is vigorous speculation in the Press as to tho relations of the Chancellor’s observations to the policy of the British delegation at Geneva when the Council meets on June 26, writers tending to anticipate the Government’s decision according to their individual hopes or fears. A number of questions will be addressed to the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons on Monday, arising out of the Chancellor’s reported remarks, and in parliamentary circles there is a growing feeling that it will be found convenient to have an early debate in the House on foreign aukirs.

Journalists in touch with State parliamentary business mostly fix on June 22 as the likely date for a debate, but others anticipate an earlier date. Mr Chamberlain’s speech last Wednesday was criticised by the Leader of the Opposition (Major Attlee), speaking at Oxford, and also Lord Davies, addressing a demonstration in South Wales.