EMPIRE’S WAR EFFORT

Evening Star, Issue 23444, 8 December 1939, Page 8

EMPIRE’S WAR EFFORT

ASSISTANCE FROM THE DOMINIONS MR EDEN EXPRESSES APPRECIATION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 6. Replying to a House of Commons debate, the Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, said there was a groat improvement in the physique and general health of the men who were being called up to-day over those in 1914. The Government was taking steps to see how best to ensure good results in the field of nutrition during the war period. Speaking on the war effort of the Commonwealth, Mr Eden said that from the small dominion of Newfoundland hundreds of men were coming to join the Royal Navy. South Rhodesia had raised hundreds of men who were in training and had offered three squadrons to the R.A.F. Each of the dominions has placed the whole of its naval resources to co-operate with the Admiralty. On land we would soon have the co-operation of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada in those fields of war in which they won imperishable fame 25 years ago. Turning to the air, Mr Eden said a large part of the R.A.F. consisted of personnel from the dominions, and over and above that the new air scheme was going to bring to our help thousands of pilots and air crews. Ho believed it was positive faith in parliamentary government by a free community which called forth these examples of self-sacrifice and loyalty. “ It is in that spirit, which I find daily in the work which I have to do, that lies our certainty of ultimately winning this conflict,” he said.

ANGLO-RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS

ISSUE OF WHITE PAPER UNDER CONSIDERATION

RUGBY, December 7, (Received December 8, at 1 p.m.)

Mr R. A. Butler announced in the House of Commons that the question of issuing a White Paper setting out the exchange of views during the Anglo-Russian negotiations was being reconsidered.

ITALY'S NEUTRALITY

POPE PRAISES .GOVERNMENT’S WISDOM VATICAN CITY, December 7. (Received December 8, at noon.) The Pope, receiving Signor Alfieri, (Minister of Culture) said: “The Italian Government’s wisdom, which has saved it from being implicated in the war, will have a faithful echo in the Italian people.”-

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY

P6LAND TO BE REPRESENTED LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 10.50 a.m.) The Polish emigre Government will be represented at the League Assembly.