CONDITIONS IN EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN EUROPE.

HOSTILE CAMPS GONE.

PRIME MINISTER'S REVIEW.

British Wireless

RUGBY, Nov. 23

In a speech at a, meeting of the Conservative Tarty at Glasgow last evening, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, said the past four years had seen Europe, which had been divided into two hostile camps, become at any ralo a United Europe to the extent that there was no longer any definition of Allies or ex-enemies. Instead there was a spirit which was bringing all countries, irrespective of the. past, into closer contact and into amiable discussion and communion designed to help Europe as a whole to meet the future. No individual had contributed more to that condition of affairs than Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary. The League of Nations had played its part in that tho statesmen of Europe, instead of hurling despatches at one another across the frontiers, had now become accustomed to meet in friendly conversation. They had learned by that means that othe'r nations had a point of view which was not only worthy in itself of consideration, but which must bo considered if there was to be any possibility of agreement on outstanding questions.

That niight seem to people trained in business methods as platitudinous and elementary, but it had taken the Great War to teach tho statesmen of Europe that lesson. There was to-day in Europo a spirit of give and take which was absent before tho war.

To have reached such a slate of things within 10 years of tho war was an achievement which held hope of future betterment, amelioration and nappiness for tho people of Europe.