MR EDEN CONGRATULATES

Evening Star, Issue 25567, 21 August 1945, Page 5

MR EDEN CONGRATULATES

A FORTHRIGHT SPEECH t ( IN AGREEMENT CONCERNING GREECE (Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 20. Mr Eden, the former Foreign Secretary, congratulated Mr Bevin on the forthrightness of his speech, and added that during the four and a-half years they had served together in the War Cabinet he did not remember a single difference between himself and Mr Bevin on the important issue of foreign policy. “He helped me in that critical period, and I, in the same spirit, would like to try to help him now,” he said. It was not the duty of the Opposition to emphasise divergencies, but to state them frankly in order to try to reach an .agreement so Parliament might in these difficult years function largely as a Council of State. The greater the agreement at home the greater would Mr Bevin’s authority be. abroad. Mr Eden said lie agreed entirely with Mr Bevin regarding Greece. The charge that Greece had aggressive intentions against her northern neighbours would not bear a moment’s examination, especially in view of Greece’s present military capacity, because the Greek army was destroyed in 1941, and had never been reconstructed.