EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 9

EMPIRE CONFERENCE

SPANISH REPERCUSSIONS. . MINISTERS IN CLOSE TOUCH. SITUATION MUCH ALTERED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received June 2, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, June 1. Instead of having to await dispatches and exchange views telegraphically, the Dominion Prime Ministers held a consultation with the Prime Minister (Hon. Neville Chamberlain), the Foreign Secretary (Hon. Anthony Eden) and other members of the British Cabinet to-day and thus wure able to deal with the Spanish crisis on the spot. The morning’s meeting of the Imperial Conference was originally intended to continue the foreign affairs discussion and deal with the Far East, but the crisis has completely altered the situation. Mr Eden dealt entirely with Spain, explaining the latest situation and outlining the British representations. Each Dominion Prime Minister participated in the discussion. The Australian Associated Press understands that the Dominions’ delegates fully approved Mr Eden’s emphasis of the necessity to regard the situation calmly in conjunction with appealing to Herr Hitler not to make the situation graver. • The morning’s discussions provided a further opportunity for the Dominions’ representatives to indicate in the plainest words their insistence that England and the Dominions must at all costs strive not to be embroiled by such incidents, which are not Empire affairs. Nothing has emerged more clearly from the conference than the Dominions’ unanimity on the matter, which has been persistently expressed with the greatest forcefulnesu by every Prime Minister.