GUARANTEES TO RUMANIA AND GREECE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 7

GUARANTEES TO RUMANIA AND GREECE

SEVEN-TOWER CONFERENC E URGED CREATION OF REAL DEFENSIVE FRONT (Received 15th April, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 14th April. Newspapers to-day unanimously approve of the guarantees given to Greece and Rumania. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the debate revealed an impressive unanimity on the rightness and need for measures to halt the march of Power politics and the threat to world peace. The “Daily Mail” believes that the new British policy of selected security should be reciprocal. It approves of not denouncing the Anglo-Italian Pact. The "News Chronicle” welcomes Mr Chamberlain's statement as being stronger and more precise than was expected. It believes that the tendency io “wobble toward appeasement” has been arrested by the all-round pressure of public opinion. It regards the paucity of signs of collaboration with Russia as the chief weakness, but congratulates the Government on taking the first step toward what can be made into a real system of collective resistance to aggression. SEVEN-POWER TALKS URGED The “Daily Herald,” supporting Mr Attlee’s arguments, declares that Anglo-Frencb-Russia co-operation is the only basis on which European collective security can be built. It urges a sevenPower conference betv/een Britain, France, Poland, Russia, Greece, Rumania, and Turkey to create a real defensive front.

wobble toward appeasement” has been arrested by the all-round pressure of public opinion. It regards the paucity of signs of collaboration with Russia as the chief weakness, but congratulates the Government on taking the first step toward what can be made into a real system of collective resistance to aggression.

“The Times” says that British policy has taken another moment jus step forward. The engagements were not lightly undertaken, but they represent a considered national decision, exacted by a course of events to which no

other answer was possible. It urges that it is possible for the Balkan countries, with western support, to form a bloc, the strength of which would be a deterrent to predatory onslaughts. Referring to the German charges of encirclement. “The Times” declares that it could not pay a greater tribute to the patience and resolution with which Britain has refused, even to the point of peril, to join any attempt at circumscribing German activities till they outran even a show of legality.