BRITAIN AND EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 11

BRITAIN AND EUROPE.

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. | FRENCH SYRIAN MANDATE. i Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, j (Reed. 9.35 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 5. The Prime Minister. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a speech at Aberdeen, referred to the value of the Locarno Treaty in securing the peace of Europe. He said the efficacy of the League of Nations had been exemplified in the settlement of the Graeco-Bulgariau dispute. | In an allusion to Syria Mr. Baldwin said ! he observed in some quarters a demand ] that he should pass summary judgment j 011 the conduct of Britain's French allies in their mandated territories. " Our growing sensibility of wrong, wherever it is committed, is a good thing,"- he said, "but censure should be tempered with a rei membrance of our own shortcomings, and i a full sense of the difficulty of the task : imposed oil the great Powers bv the j mandatory system." | Referring to the British Government's de- ! termination to make every economy, howj ever unpopular, the Prime Minister said | it could not economise to a point which i would reduce the defensive forces below | what, it believed to be necessary for tiie safety of the Empire.