GERMAN GRAND CROSS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 7

GERMAN GRAND CROSS

THE FIRST RECIPIENTS. BERLIN, June 7. Signor Mussolini and Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Secretary, are the first recipients of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which Herr Hitler recc created and reserved for forc. 0 .ers whom he desires to honour. AMBASSADOR’S SPEECH QUESTIONS IN COMMONS MR. A. EDEN’S REPLY. 1 British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, June 7. Asked in the House of Commons whether the speech delivered by His Majesty’s Ambassador in Berlin on June 1 represented the view of the Government, the Foreign Secretary replied: “The speech of the ArvKassador was made on a social and unofficial occasion, when there was no question of an expression of the views of His Majesty’s Government, and I see no reason for action of any kind.” From the Labour benches a member asked if it was part of the functions of an Ambassador to criticise the opinion of those in Britain who were opposed to dictatorships, and Mr. Eden replied: “I do not read in the Ambassador’s speech the sentiment which has been attributed to him, nor do I understand that he criticised those in this country who preferred, as we all do in this House, the democratic form of Government.”