SIR JOHN SIMON'S TOUR

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 15

SIR JOHN SIMON'S TOUR

I VI .-'IT TO HKKLIN ISRIOKK i SOVILT OK POLAND | I lIIMTIMf I'i-Tlt lAI. V.'IK I RUGBY, March 7. I Replying to a parliamentary quesj lion to-day Sir John Simon (Foreign | Secretary) stated that after his visit |to Berlin had been arranged his Majesty's Government received the intimation that a British Ministerial visit to the Soviet Union and Poland I would subsequently be welcome. 'The Government replied that it I would be happy to accept the invitations. It was intended that these visits should be paid by Mr R. A. Eden. Asked further whether the Moscow visit would come before alter the Berlin visit, Sir John Simon said that there was no compulsion in the matter. The arrangement contcmniated was that Moscow and | Warsaw should be visited after Ber!.lin. He hoped this would be the ! order of events, i j SUPPORTING THE > GOVERNMENT HRIT A IN'S OBLI (J ATI ONS (Received March 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. In Monday's defence debate in the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain will submit an amendment to the Labour censure motion, backed by all parties, supporting the Government. The amendment declares that the House of Commons is faithful to the country's obligations as a member of the League of Nations, desiring the limitation of armaments by international agreement. It recognises that these objects are unobtainable by unilateral disarmament, and approves the policy of the Government as equally necessary for the defence of its people and for the discharge of Great Britain's international obligations.