PARLEYS IN PRAGUE

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19545, 6 April 1935, Page 8

PARLEYS IN PRAGUE

GOOD RESULTS ACHIEVED. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. POLICIES IN AGREEMENT. (Official Wireless.) (Received April 6, 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 5. Several British newspapers express the view that the conversation Mr Eden had with Dr. Edouard Benes (Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister), in Prague was by no means the least informative.or useful of the series. Mr Eden’s visit there was indeed the shortest but the close and frequent contacts maintained at Geneva have familiarised Czechoslovakian and British statesmen with the views held by one another on the European situation. These contacts and his own personal friendship with Dr. Benes, were referred to in a speech which Mr Eden made in Prague. He at the same time emphasised that his European visits had had only one object—namely, the maintenance of peace. Cannot Stand Alone. The time has passed, said the Lord Privy Seal, when any nation can suppose that its prosperity and its happiness can be enhanced by war. In the world to-day no nation can prosper on another’s ruin. They are all too intimately connected for that; they must, stand or fall together. That is the chief lesson learned from the Great War, and that is the principle underlying the League of Nations. | BRITISH MINISTERS’ TOUR. ( REPORT TO CABINET. STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS. SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY. (Official Wireless.) (Received April 6, 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 5. Detailed views on the European situation of the German, Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian Governments as revealed in the conversations with British Ministers during the series of visits which concluded to-night with the return to England of Mr Eden, are now receiving careful examination by appropriate departments of the British Government.

'Both Sir John Simon and Mr Eden will attend a Cabinet meeting on Monday at which it is anticipated their reports will be presented and considered.

A Government statement on the results of the visits will he made in the House of Commons on Tuesday by Sir John Simon artd it is awaited with exceptional interest, in view of the fact that Sir John Simon and Mr Eden will leave on the following day for the Anglo-French-Italian Conference at Stresa.

From Stresa the Ministers will proceed to Geneva, where a special League Council meeting, to consider Germany’s re-armament decision, will take place on April 15.