SEVERE CENSURE

Southland Times, Issue 22770, 21 December 1935, Page 7

SEVERE CENSURE

AMERICAN COMMENT POSITION WORSE THAN BEFORE “DISGRACEFUL EPISODE” (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 10.20 p.m.) New York, Dec. 19. “Europe’s statesmen may well make up their minds that the recent events in London and Paris have again widened the Atlantic as far as Congress and the State Department are concerned.” This sums up one well-known Washington correspondent’s comment on officials’ reaction to the House of Commons’ debate. American comment is notably severe on Mr Baldwin’s and Sir Samuel Hoare’s statements. Even such a usually stuanch pro-British journal as the New York Times employs terms of the heaviest censure, calling the whole thing a “sorry exhibition.” It continues: “The whole tiling was done so ineptly and so clumsily as to seem almost unbe--lievable. Both Mt Baldwin’s' and Sir Samuel Hoare’s speeches succeeded only in causing the matter to appear worse than ever. Nothing in the British diplomatic record for years past equals this seemingly gratuitous tarnishing of the repute of the Government. The whole thing is a most distressful and disgraceful episode. The position is more dangerous than before.” The New York Herald-Tribune refers to an “amazing and abject scene in the House,” and declares: “Sir Samuel Hoare was made to resemble a whipped boy for blunders that not he alone had committed.”