SANCTIONS CURB

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 5

SANCTIONS CURB

CONTROVERSY IN BRITAIN

CHANCELLOR'S OPINIONS

CRITICISM AROUSED

POSSIBLE HOUSE DEBATE

(British Official Wireless.)

Reed, noon

RUGBY, June 13.

Newspapers give considerable prominence to the discussion aroused by the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, at a political dinner on Wednesday in which, as tho Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, subsequently explained in the House of Commons, he put forward suggestions with regard to ending the League sanctions against Italy, which were "provisional reflections on the Ilalo-Kthiopian dispute, which had occurred to him, Mr. Chamberlain, personally."

Despite Mr. Baldwin's additional comment, the ■Government has as yet reached no conclusions on the matters discussed by Mr. Chamberlain in what was practically an impromptu address to an •'exclusive and politically-educated audience." There is vigorous speculation in the press as to.the relations of the Chancellor's observations to the policy of the British delegation at Geneva, when the Council meets on June 26 and writers are tending to anticipate the Governments decision according to their individual hopes or fears.

A number of questions will be addressed to the Foreign Secretary in the Mouse of Commons on Monday arising out of the Chancellor's reported remarks, and in Parliamentary circles there is growing a feeling that it will be found convenient to have an early debate in the House of Commons on foreign affairs Journalists in touch with State Parliamentary business mostly fix on June 22 as a likely date for a debate, but others anticipate an earlier date. Mr. Chamberlain's speech of last Wediiesday was criticised by the leader of the Labour Party, Major C. R. Altlee. speaking at Oxford, and also by Lord Davies when addressing! a demonstration in South Wales.