SANCTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 8

SANCTIONS

JYJIL NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S public utterances concerning sanctions appear to have been designed to drag the Cabinet in the direction of removing them. If the Cabinet had been of one mind on the matter there would have been no necessity for Mr. Chamberlain to have commented publicly on a matter which is not within his sphere. It may, of course, be. declared that Mr. Chamberlain was only flying a kite to see how the wind was blowing with the general public, but that is hardly an acceptable hypothesis seeing that if the public had expressed resentment at the course advocated by Mr. Chamberlain it would mean that his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer would have been imperilled. It might have led to his having to resign —at least temporarily after the modern manner—from the Cabinet. The statement also appears to have been precipitate because it does not appear to have been made after, but before negotiations had been entered into between the Sanetionists Powers and Italy, for it is necessary that if the policy is to be reversed, then the whole policy should be reversed mutually; that is to say, Italy must remove sanctions simultaneously with their removal by the sanetions-enforeing Powers.