HOUSE REASSURED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 13

HOUSE REASSURED

EUROPE'S CRISIS

NO IMMEDIATE DANGER

ANTHONY EDEN CHEERED

GERMAN PLANS QUERIED

INTENTIONS ON FRONTIERS

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(Hoed. March 10. 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 9

The Sun-Herald News Agency says that the immediate reactions to the statement, made in fhe House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, concerning the German inoccupation of the demilitarised Rhineland Kone, were very favourable. The opinion in tin- lobbies was thai the Government's forthrightness would' have " very steadying effect on ' the Continent. The House, earlier in a grim mood, was noticeably reassured when Mr. Eden declared" there was no reason _to suppose that the present German action implied a threat of hostilities. Prolonged cheers of approval interrupted Mr. Eden's declaration that Germany had profoundly shaken confidence in any! future engagement into which the Herman Government might enter. THe Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in opening the defence debate, asserted that era rice had virtually wrecked the Disarmament Conference. This statement met with wide approval, because, although members ot the House are completely unsympathetic towards Germany, they feel that France cannot altogether be absolved from contributing to the present crisis. DOMINION DIFFICULTY

High Commissioners of the Dominions who were present during Mr. Eden's statement took notes in the gallery. This strikingly illustrated the Dominions' difficulties when an emergency like the present crisis arises. Events move so quckly that it is impossible adequately to consult the Dominions. Admittedly such a situation rarely arises, but it proves that the. consultation machinery in times of crises must inevitably suffer;

Mr. Baldwin promised the Labour Leader, Major C. R. Attlee. the. opportunity for a debate. Kir Austen Chamberlain asked* Mr. Eden whether the German proposals were confined to the east and west frontiers and whether the Government would undertake to consider Britain's interest in maintaining the independence and integrity of Austria. Mr. Eden replied that Germany's offer was limited to her eastern and western neighbours. He would answer the second part of the question in the affirmative.

Mr. Eden then hurried from the House and later left fop Pans.