BRITAIN STIRRED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 10 March 1936, Page 7

BRITAIN STIRRED

i INTEREST AND ANXIETY ’’ I' i CABINET DISCUSSIONS ► j FOREIGN SECRETARY BUSY LOCARNO POWERS TO MEET. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, March 8. '.I he situation arising out of yesterday’s sensational events in Germany underwent a further examination by the appropriate Departments of the British Gvwriimenc to-day and Cabinet will review the whc-le position to-mor-iow. Intense public interest, not unLlnged with anxiety, has been aroused, and it is recognised that Parliament will ■expect the earliest possible statement from the Government on the subject. This will be made to-morrow immediately after question time in the House cf Commons by the Foreign Secretary (Air. Anthony Eden), wno will have had an opportunity of full consultation with his Ministerial colleagues. Meanwhile, Air. Edon has been kept closely informed icgarding the trend of opinion in the Governments of the other Powers which signed the Locarno Treaty, with the views of the French Government. The French Ambassador in London (Monsieur A. Corbin) had an interview with Mr. Eden this morning and another consultation took place this evening when he again called at the Foreign Office. It has been announced in Paris that the French Foreign Alinister has decided to call a meeting in Paris of representatives of the Kocarno Powers .other than Germany, and Mr. Eden will leave London to-morrow evening or early on Tuesday to attend a meeting on that day. From Paris he will proceed to Geneva to attend a meeting of the League of Nations Council,

3 which, it is understood, will be con- . voked on the request of the French I Government in order that the League A may be formally seized of the quesr tion in the manner envisaged under 3 the Treaty of Locarno in the case of a breach of its provisions. The Times’ political correspondent s says that Mr. Anthony Eden told the . German Ambassador that Britain was (- bound to take a very serious view of t the German violation of solemn pledges. Sending troops into the j Rhineland must be condemned and Germany had every right to state obr jections to the Franco-Soviet pact but :i the action could have been along the I lines of Locarno. Moreover, although ; a realisation of Germany’s construe 5 tive aims is desirable, it is felt that . the short cut of easy complacency towards Hitler’s violation of pledges ) might be the longest and perhaps the most disastrous road.