FRANK DEBATE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9

FRANK DEBATE

RESTORED EQUILIBRIUM. 1 ELIMINATING SUSPICION. BRITISH PRESS VIEWS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received February 24, 9.35 a.m.

RUGBY, Feb. 23. The conflicting views on the issues raised by the resignation of Mr R. A. Eden which were expressed in the House of Commons are reflected in the newspapers’ comment. Support for the attitude taken by Mr Jtden is confined almost entirely to the Opposition Press, but on all sides there is full recognition of the high conviction by which Mr Eden was guided. The Times says: “The British belief in the value of publicity as a political safeguard has been fortified during the past two days. The full and frank debate in which the House of Commons investigated the origins of the disagreement between Mr Eden and his colleagues lias now largely restored the sense of proportion. It has been elementary vindication of the institution of Parliament. Nothing has been glossed over or hushed up. Criticism is free and critics will continue to he heard. “But the world has no excuse for misconceiving an event which means no more at bottom than that the British Government, while faithful to its friendships and principles, will devote new energy to a thorough test of what may be done by more positive diplomacy for the elimination of the causes of international suspicion and hostility. The conversations with Italy are no rebuff to the League, nor are they in any sense a disservice to ■it.”