FUTURE POLICY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 166, 15 June 1936, Page 7

FUTURE POLICY

ON LEAGUE SANCTIONS. MARKED SPECULATION. THE CHANCELLOR’S SPEECH.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 15, 10.55 a.m. RUGBY, June 13-

The newspapers give considerable prominence to the discussion aroused by the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Neville Chamberlain) at a political dinner oil Wednesday evening, in which the Prime Minister subsequently explained, in the House of Commons, lie had put forward suggestions with regard to ending the League sanctions which were •‘provisional reflections on the ltaloEthiopian dispute which had occurred to him—Mr Chamkcriain —personally.'' Despite Mr Baldwin’s additional comment that the Government had as yet reached no conclusions on the matters discussed by Mr Chamberlain in what was practically an impromptu address to an “exclusive and politically educated audience,” there is vigorous speculation in the Press as to the relations of the Chancellor’s observations to the policy of the British delegation at Geneva when the Council meets on June 26, writers tending to anticipate the Government’s decision according to their individual hopes or fears. A number of questions will be addressed to the Foreign Secretary (Mr R. A. Eden) in the House of Commons on Monday arising out of the Chancellor’s reported remarks, and m Parliamentary circles there is a growing feeling that it will be found convenient to have an early debate in the House of Commons on foreign affairs. Journalists in touch with State and Parliamentary business mostly fix June 22 as the likely date for the debate, but others anticipate an earlier date. Mr Chamberlain’s speech last Wednesday was criticised by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr C. It. Attlee), when speaking at Oxford, and also Lord Davies, who was addressing a demonstration in South Wales.