GENEVA INCIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7

GENEVA INCIDENT

Mr. Eden and Mr. Jordan THE REPORTED CLASH NEW ZEALANDERS OFFENDED? STORY UPSETS LONDON OFFICE (By Telegraph—Press Associaton—Copyright) Received June 6, 7.35 p.m. LONDON, June 5. The New Zealand Government Office is upset by Mr Vernon Bartlett’s article in the News-Chronicle which, after stating that the principal delegates to the Imperial Conference made it clear to Mr Eden that the restoration of the League’s presjjee was of vital importance to them, refers to the clash between Mr and Mr at j 29. “It is now idfty widely known that Mr Eden brought most unusual pressure to bear on Mr Jordan in orcly that he should say nothing whicn might encourage the Spanish Government to offend Germany or Italy,” states Mr Bartlett. “Mr Jordan was impressed by Senor del Vayo’s overwhelming evidence of German and Italian contempt for their non-inter-vention pledges and was about to propose that the problem of Spain should more or less be transfefred from the Non-Intervention Committee to the League. Mr Eden dissuaded him from doing anything of the sort, but only by methods which have offended the New Zealanders and all the other Dominion representatives who attach importance to the independence guaranteed them by the Statute of Westminster.” Mr Jordan, interviewed by the Australian Associated Press, reiterated his recent denial that he had amended his ' speech at Mr Eden’s request. “I am too jealous of the position of New Zealand in the League to subject it to the undue influence of any other delegate,” said Mr Jordan. “New Zealand counts one in the League as does Ihe United Kingdom and any suggestion that I was swayed by unusual pressure from Mr Eden is absolutely incorrect. It is absurd, also, to suggest that I and other New Zealanders are offended by anything Mr Eden is said to have done.”