FOREIGN POLICY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 123, 27 May 1938, Page 6

FOREIGN POLICY

Sir.—Kindly allow me a little span* in your valuable paper to state the views, I think, of thousands of peopl in our little land alone, and also in England, on the Imperial Foreign Policy. There has been quite a bit of criticism in the papers about Mi. Jordon, and New Zealand’s views at Geneva. Nothing much has been sail about the many congratulations he has received, which goes to show that < the present British foreign policy i< < not a popular one. The British Go\ | ernment, along with other GovernI ments, decided not to acknowled;; I acts of aggression. But because Mt 1 Chamberlain desires to make a bat- , I gain with Mussolini he is prepared i | drop principles to do so. and expects the British peoples and Dominion, to I agree also to this dictator-like attitude. Mr. Chamberlain is not Ei: ■- land, and >f he hasn't sutlicicnl cott - age to act up to the high principle that British men and women dematv. in their Prime Minister, he should make way for a better man. China is a victim of aggression, but she buy war materials to protect herseli Why in the name of justice shout 1 Spain be treated as she is.' Mr. Chum berlain led us to believe that he v. trying to bring about a settlement m Spain. The British Government mm. an agreement with Italy, and out newspapers informed us that Mu- - lini would withdraw his troops n > Spain, as soon as ho was able, lou. “« we read, were there. When Mi Chamberlain was questioned by Opi« sition Members in the House of t’..i ■ liament, about the withdrawal, win. .i ! hadn't taken plae-e, they were Iwi that he didn't expect Mussolini to withdraw them till th” rebels hart won. In the meantime the friend!' Government of Spain are still looking for British justice and finding it a farce. I wonder the British peopu have stood it so long. The history <*( the Abyssinian war is too well know. to repeat, and after that horribl massacre of unarmed people, it a decided by most. Governments not u recognise the Italian Conquest. But now Mr. Chamberlain’s foreign polic.. is for the British people and the Dominions to recognise it. The audacit of the man! My heart was gladdened by the stand Mr. Jordon took at Gen eva, and New Zealand will certainl benefit by the esteem of the British people and other nations. If I remember rightly, Mr. Jordon has been asked to be chairman, or president, al the next meeting ot the League ol Nations, held in September at Geneva, so it doesn't look as if we arc losin* our prestige and arc a disloyal pcoplt Righteousness exalteth a nation, not lowered principles. I am, etc., "BRITISH MOTHER. £