PROMPT ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 8

PROMPT ACTION

URGED BY MR EDEN ONLY MEANS OF AVERTING WAR. ■ SITUATION IN DANZIG. (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON. July 31. In the House of Commons Mr Anthony Eden said Mr Chamberlain’s frankness, particularly in connection with the Russian negotiations, was bound to do good. "I ask the Government, if there are still political differences. to enlarge the military mission to a political one in order that someone can tall: to M. Stalin personally and finish the whole thing in a week." said Mr Eden. Turning to the subject of the Far East, Mr Eden said Japan had not only failed to conquer China, but the end of the war was more remote than ever. The Chinese morale and organisation had made a remarkable recovery since the autumn. The British Government would find support from every section of opinion in Britain if it was necessary to speak in plain terms to Japan. Mr Eden added that Danzig was no longer an issue, as the Nazis in their rule over the town had suppressed other political parties, expelled the Jews and seek to impose on Poland the fate of Czechoslovakia. Only an effective peace front would avert war. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary j for Foreign Affairs. Mr R. A. Butler, i winding up the debate said Britain | must be acknowledged as the leader and organiser of the peace front. She had had considerable success in determined diplomatic efforts.

A Liberal Opposition motion to reduce the estimates, was defeated by 266 votes to 120.