FOREIGN SITUATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 8

FOREIGN SITUATION

"THE SKY IS DARK." MR BALDWIN'S COMMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received April 20, 11.48 a.m. RUGBY, April 18. Mr Stanley Baldwin, speaking on the Italo-Abyssinian situation at Bewdley; said: It Italy thinks tho object of Britain's policy is'to bring about her defeat and humiliation that is a profound mistake on her part. Referring to collective security, Mr Baldwin said: We are working for it, and shall work for it. We have not yet achieved it, and we have some way to go before we shall get it. Collective security will never work unless all the nations who take part in it are prepared to threaten with military sanctions any future aggressor. That means that the nations who take part in collective security must be ready. Continuing, Mr Baldwin said that, in their efforts to preserve peace, they must see in what tlie Leaguo was lacking, how it could be strengthened, how collective security could be obtained, and what guarantees they could get in Europe that poison gases would not be used. "But what chance have we? I would not say the omens are wholly unfavourable. The sky is dark in many quarters, but we have proposals before us, both French and German, to which we are giving our most serious attention. It is the first time that similar proposals have come simultaneously from these two European Powers, and who is more fitted to investigate this question and try and bring these countries together than weP the Prime Minister added.