HOUSE OF COMMONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 7

HOUSE OF COMMONS

QUESTIONS FOR MINISTERS. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Received April IS, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, April 17. Parliament will reassemble to-mor-row, and a week later, on April 25, Sir J. Simon will open his budget. Questions to be addressed to Ministers in the Commons, to-morrow, will covei’ a wide field, permitting statements upon all the developments of importance in foreign and Empire affairs, and at Home. Mr. Chamberlain, in particular, will be given an opportunity to acquaint the House with the progress of negotiations in relation to the new situation in Europe, and with the Government’s views on events since the debate, last Thursday. He will be asked about Mr. Roosevelt’s peace message, and about the discussions with the Soviet, which are understood to be proceeding in a friendly, promising atmosphere. The return of M. Maisky to Moscow, to-morrow, to report to his Government, shows a desire on the’ Soviet’s part, to be possessed of all the information available l in connection with

these important consultations. Other Commons questions on foreign affairs will relate to Spain and the Far East. MR. CHAMBERLAIN TO SPEAK. LONDON, April 17. Mr. Chamberlain will make a statement on the international situation, in the Commons, on April 18. It is expected that he ■will announce Turkey’s closer association with the alliance against aggression. “The Times’s” diplomatic correspondent says that Mr. Chamberlain ■will probably assure the Commons of the satisfactory progress of the conversations for the organisation of Eastern European security, and the conversations with Moscow, ■which are concerned with the maxinei’ whereby English, French, and Soviet assistance will be available to threatened States. Turkish diplomacy continues active, with a view to promoting Balkan unity, and the progress of the SerbianCroat conversations is being anxiously watched. In this connection, rumours of hostile troop concentrations in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar are not taken too seriously.