CO-OPERATION URGED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 7

CO-OPERATION URGED

BRITAIN, AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN POWERS MR ANTHONY EDEN’S WARNING Rec 9 P.m. LONDON, Feb. 28. The overthrow of Czechoslovakia was a danger signal inevitably reminding the world of 1939, said Mr Anthony Eden in a speech at Leamington Czechoslovakia’s second surrender of political liberties had been imposed by methods more subtle than Hitler’s, but a no less ominous and sinister power of the police State was already at work in Czechoslovakia. Mr Eden, Urging that Britain and the United States should integrate their efforts with those of other Western Powers to the fullest, said that Britain and the United States must some day travel that direction of collaboration and the longer a decision was postponed, the greater price mankind would pay. , Mr Eden added that no Western union would be complete without Italy—a country, which, after a period of Fascism, was seeking to rebuild a parliamentary Government and practise freedom in daily ilfe. Italy must be heartened and sustained and given every practical help—now.