IMPORTANT MEETING OF CABINET

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 20889, 22 August 1939, Page 5

IMPORTANT MEETING OF CABINET

HELP FOR POLAND - SIGNIFICANT PLEDGE MUSSOLINI WILL NOT MEDIATE IN DISPUTE (Official Wireless) (Received August 22, 1 1.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21 In London the principal interest is now fixed on tomorrow’s meeting of Ministers, when Viscount Halifax will report upon the international situation. The meeting was arranged before the Ministers dispersed on holiday, but in view of the developments in the European situation during the last few days there is satisfaction that Mr Chamberlain and his colleagues will have an opportunity at this stage of reviewing together the more critical position which has followed from the re-appearance in Central Europe of the tactics by which the crisis of last September was inaugurated and from the clamant reiteration in the German press of the impossibility of a compromise upon demands which the whole world knows mean war it they are persisted in. This growing tension is bound to engage the Ministers’ most serious attention, though it is generally recognised here that Britain has done almost all that lies in its power to ensure peace by defining with precision and clarity its attitude and obligations. On June 29 Viscount Halifax declared: “In the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in the fulfilment of our pledges to resist it.” Mr Chamberlain subsequently emphasised that these words represented Britain’s considered policy. Ministers will, no doubt, be concerned to see if there remain any means, over and above all that has already been done to that end, to ensure that not the slightest doubt survives in any quarter of the significance of that pledge. ROME, Aug. 21 Signor Gayda says that Signor Mussolini will not mediate in the Danzig dispute. Already he has told Poland to negotiate directly with Germany and make the necessary adjustments or suffer the consequences-