STRONG CRITICISM
ME. EDEN'S SPEECH NATIONS AT GENEVA NEED FOR UNANIMITY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 10. 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, April 9 Prior to the adjournment of the House of Commons Mr. R. J. Boothby (Conservative Aberdeen and Kincardine) strongly criticised Mr. Eden's speech at Geneva yesterday. He said he could not understand the point of it. If the chance had gone of achieving unanimity among the members of the League it would be kinder to the Abyssinians to face up to that fact instead of "leading them up the garden path" and prolonging the ghastly war, and, still worse, severing Britain from France. Viscount Cranbourne, one of the Foreign Under-Secretaries, in replying said that Mr. Eden had pressed most strongly at Geneva for the policy outlined in his speech last Monday. If conciliation had no result it would be a question of calling the Committee of Eighteen together. If the use of gas was not abolished it would almost end civilisation. It was an issue of the utmost urgency.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 11
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