FOREIGN POLICY

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1937, Page 2

FOREIGN POLICY

LONDON VISITORS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 20The Foreign Secretary received at the Foreign Office to-day Dr King, the special representative of China at the Coronation, who was accompanied by the Chinese Ambassador-To-day’s conversation gave a valuable opportunity for a cordial discussion on relations between the two countries, and the aspects of the general international .situation chiefly interesting to them. It is understood there was agreement regarding the .situation in the Far East as being more encouraging, and in this connection Mr Eden was able to repeat the assurance that any efforts which His Majesty’s Government might be in a position to make for further improvement in international relations in the Far East, would take full account oil tho interests of all the nations concerned. Mr Roosevelt’s representative at .the Coronation, Mr Gerard,, in a speech at a dinner in his honour in London, said they had come many miles to see the great ceremony, which was not only the consecration and Coronation of one individual and of one King, but was a consecration of the great Empire, held togethe- in more permanent bonds than ever before in its history. “You are arming sadly and reluctantly, but with determination, but when you are armed, then armed Brtain will be the greatest guarantee of peace on earth- We in America are firmly determined on three things:— Firstly, we are against war; secondly, we are against any alliances; thirdly, we are against meddling in the muddled! affairs of Europe, but we and you, the great British Empire, are bound by something more binding than alliances and treaties- We are bound together bj’ mutual 'trust, by mutual understanding, by common desire for stability and peace, and especially by the feeling that at this moment, with Fascism on one side and Communism on the other, the three great demorcacies ofj Britain, France, and the United States stand as the sole hope of liberalism and o freedom in the world-” TOKIO, May 20At a farewell luncheon: to Sir Robert Clive, the retiring British Ambassador, Foreign Office officials warmly praised his work in the interests of friendship between Britain and Japan. A subsequent Foreign Office statement denies that the discussions included 1 the establishment of Japanese credit in. London to buy more British goods and a demarcation of British and Japanese sphere of influence in China- 1 I