STARTLING IMPROVEMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 5

STARTLING IMPROVEMENT

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK SUCCESS AT GENEVA BRITAIN'S GREAT HELP (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Jan. 5, noon.) LONDON, Jan. 4. Speaking at. Newcastle, Mr Anthony Eden said that 1934 was an anxious and buffeted year, but its dosing weeks saw a definite and e.von startling improvement in the international outlook.

This in the main was due to the course of events in Geneva during tho specially .summoned meeting, one of the most momentous in, the League's history, at which the Council of the League was confronted with two problems. The first concerned arrangements for the Saar plebiscite, and more especially the maintenance of order during the plebiscite period. The solution of this, he felt confident, had been greatly facilitated by the initiative of tho United Kingdom Government in its proposal to contribute troops to the international force stationed by the League in the Saar, and by the generous readiness of other countries to co-operate in the creation of such a force.

Tho second problem was even more difficult, and constituted a more serious menace to the preservation of peace, it arose out of the acute dispute between Jugoslavia and Hungary following. the assassination cf King Alexander, and here a special responsibility rested upon the representatives of the British Government to maintain an attitude of scrupulous impartiality. The Council of the League couli claim in ono week two problems, either of which might have seriously undermined the, good relations between the States of Europe had been so dealt with as now to give a fair prospect of a satisfactory conclusion.