COMMONS’ VIEW

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1936, Page 2

COMMONS’ VIEW

“MUST STAND BY THE LEAGUE”

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LONDON, November 5

In the House of Commons, Dr Hugh Dalton (Labour) paid a tribute to Dir Eden’s speech, but said that the Labour party was not yet confident that the Government had found a foreign policy. Dr Dalton ' described fascism ns the outstanding menace, lie hoped that the Government would tell all it knew about the sources vof supply of “This man Mosley.” He* was rich, but not rich enough to pay lor all the special trains and the blackshirts’ laundry bills. (Laughter). Mr Winston Churchill commended Mr Ed dn’s statement. “We must stand by the league, the gathering of the largest number of peace-seek-ing but 'well-armed nations, in. order to overawe tin* potentiol agg>essoi, h e said. “If we fail, there remain the two great parliamentary democracies of the Western world--France and Britain- —which would be possessed of Considerable means of common defence.’ Together, tliej would be dangerous to attack and hard to destroy. If Germany’s trouble is a Bolshevik invasion it could easily be healed. Let Germany join the system, and if Russia is th e aggressor, all (Europe would see- that Germany did’not go down'unaided.” 'Mr Churchill added that it was surprising that Russia should act with, such insenate folly in Spain and elsewhere, considering that she | herself was peril. It would be a • crime to call the soldiers and peoples of.' I*’ranee and Britain to go to the aid of’such a Russia, hut for whose propaganda the Spanish Horror might not have occurred. A rambling debate was wound up |)V Mr Neville Chamber la in, wno commented on the striking measure of agreement in all parts' of the House With the policy outlined hv Mr Eden. “Britain will never return to the old system of alliances, which is the only alternative to 'the league of Nations and the system of collective security,” he said.