USELESS CURB

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 5

USELESS CURB

SANCTIONS POLICY

NO LONGER EFFECTIVE

BRITISH CABINET VIEW

STATEMENT IN COMMONS

ALL EUROPE WATCHING

(Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Juno 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON 1 , June 18.

Speaking in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, announced that the Government has come to the conclusion that the League sanctions were no longer of any utility as a means of bringing pressure to bear on Italy. Not since the debate leading to tho resignation of Sir Samuel He-are from the Foreign Office has Westminster been the, centre .of such European attention. . • .

It is generally considered abroad that the decision of the House of Commons this afternoon will decide the course of Britain's European policy. The Morning Post's diplomatic correspondent understands that the principal cause of the Cabinet's decision •was the increasing truculenco of Germany.

It is understood that Sir Robert Vansittart informed the French Ambassador that the possibility of rapproachement with Germany is moro remote than ever.

The Berlin correspondent of The Times says that Germany is watching Westminster with cynical detachment. There is little chance that the Nazi foreign policy will fulfill British hopes as it seems tending more in the direction of expansion at the expense of the States of Eastern Europe.

VIEWS AT VARIANCE

AUSTRALIAN OPINION

SOUTH AFRICA'S STAND

CANBERRA, -Tune IS

The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. A. Lyons, announced to-night that instructions had been sent to the Australian High Commissioner in London, Mr. S. M. Bruce, to declare in favour of the abandonment of the sanctions against Italy when the League meets.

In a message jioiil Johannesburg, the correspondent o. the London Daily Mail quotes the South African opinion that, with the lifting of sanctions, would disappear the last vestige of international respect for the pledge of any nation. It would, however, be some consolation to South Africa to recall, when national self-respect was renounced, that she fought to retain her own, regardless of the consequences.

LOSS OF CONFIDENCE

MR. DE VALERA'S OPINION

(Reed. June 19, 11 a.m.) DUBLIN, June 18.

The President of the Irish Free State Executive Council, Mr. E. de Valera, declared in- the Dail that the League sanctions had failed and must go. He added that the League no longer commanded the confidence of the people of the world.