WORLD FRIENDSHIPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 15

WORLD FRIENDSHIPS

AMBITION OP BRITAIN A BYSSINIAN PROBLEM HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT ; (British Official Wireless.) Bee. 7) p.m. BUG BY, July H.l “We have, surely found..in the past that, it iis possible, to adjust demands and differences of this kind without recourse* to ware and 1 1 ant..not prepared even now To abandon .any elianeo that, inay ■ present itself—whether through tlie machinery of the 1906 t reaty or the machinery of the. League or both—for averting what I believe wonld be a calamity to-day,” said Sir Samuel Hoare in the House of Commons to-day, in reference to tho Anyssimnn dispute. . “1 cannot, say more than that we. are working oil these lines. Meanwhile, lot members dismiss front their-, minds rumors, altogether without foundation, .that we have asked the French Government, to join; in, a ,blockade-b? Italy, and that, wo .ourselves; qre .preparing oorne Isolated, form of coercion against a f-ounjlgy jthnt has horn, our friend since Jtesbrgimonto. '-We . stand for peace, r and we i will not abandon any reasonable'chance t hat may offer itself for helping to prevent, n disastrous war.” . sSir Samuel Hoare spolA of the friendly relations existing 'between ’Great Britain apt!.. Other, .countries, .including '"France, ..Italy, ,Tjcrlhah'y, Jlnssja, (he .United -States,, Japan,, ail’d China. “Wfl.hfive stqod.-ol<?so;and-collaborated •through tfffi i'ye.ar?.- with "Franco,?-and for deep .reason.-j of “common: iptcrest we, shall it'.ismot the British .way to qsacrifie© 'old friendships ■ lor ne.w, but that-is not to'say.'that we 1 do not seek to add new friendships to 'tho: old. ■ • " “Our relations with the Uilit'cd States are. excellent. On this side of the, Atlantic there trill never bo a Government but will do its best to ensure this essential relation, essential to the world as to ourselves. Speaking of the.lone; unbroken friend-, sfiip with Japan laud’the importance of relations with r C‘hinn, : lie referred to the disquiet causdd to friends’of Japan by certain recent events in' north China, and expressed a jiopV that this chapter of anxiety is closing. It was the belief of His Majesty's Government that steady progress towards order and; stability in China can only be maintained, first, by the promotion of good relations between , China and Japan, and, secondly, by co-operation between those two countries and other countries having similar interests and aims—in a word, the maintenance of the principle of the open door, coupjed . with a full recognition of China’s right to control her own destinies, remains the broad basis of English 'policy. ’■