BRITISH POLITICS

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

MINISTERIAL SPEECHES.

LONDON, July 2<

Air Baldwin, addressing !:t.y tnousand Lancashire mid Cheshire unionists at Kno-wsley Park, said that the most satisfactory feature of the foreign outlook was the eviile.it desire of Germany to continue negotiations with, both Britain ami France. He wished that Germany would enter the League of Nations, as soon as possible, because the.i, the existing problems, notably disarmament, would assume a new and better aspect. Hit chief factor checking the growth if Britain’s overseas trade was the great 'lncrease in productive and distributive costs. We were threatened with a conflict between the coal owners aid the miners, both with a very strong case, but all the time the financial position of tin industry was becoming worse. There conflicts should be lifted on to a new plane by both master and men. He hoped that the negotiations, which were about to lie resumed, would result in carving the harassed indust’y over a year or two, till it was easier to negotiate permanent ‘settlements.

The British interest in it settled Continental situation was emphasised by M t Chamberlain in a speech at Birmingham. He said that he was hopeful of a settlement of the question which would remove the sense of fear of renewed peril, and afford sen-, relief throughout the world. It must 'not be supposed that we had no interest in the relations between our neighbours, in their security, or in tie peace of Europe. Some people ebjeeted to our giving any foi’ii of guarantee, covering the existing (Franco-Belgian and German boundaries, hut the sanctity of those frontiers .was the groundwork of our own protection. W P had it in our power by associating ourselves as guarantors of that peaceful settlement, to give measures of confldcaeo to France, Belgium and Germany, wjjich they would never find in any instrument to which Wo wore not parties,