GOVERNMENT POLICY, BLAMED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 October 1922, Page 11

GOVERNMENT POLICY, BLAMED.

(Received Oct. 7, 12.15 p.m.) , , h LONDON, Oct. 6. .Lord Islington and several other in- *^* ial members of the Near ■ and Middle East Association in a. statement declare that the 'crisis 'in the Near East is largely attributable to .Britain's unwise Eastern "policy during , - the past three years. It should be made clear to the Government that the' nation will refuse to support any war, it, believes unnecessary and honourably avoidable. AH questions. outstanding should be speedily composed by negotiations based upon concerted actum with the Allies. The policy ofisolation and provocation should never Lave been assumed, and should be firiallv abandoned. The policy had. entailed vast additional and quite unnecessary expenditure, and had brought'us to the very brink of war, the issue of which at Home or abroad no one can foresee.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.