“DEFINITELY BETTER”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 7

“DEFINITELY BETTER”

Mr. Eden on International Outlook SUCCESSES OF LEAGUE (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 4. .Speaking at Newcastle, Mr, Anthony Eden, Lord. Privy Seal, said that 1934 was an anxious and ouffetted year, but its closing weeks saw a definite and even a startling improvement in the international outlook. This in the main was due to the course of events in Geneva during the specially summoned meeting—one of the most momentous in the League's history—at which the Council of the League was confronted with two problems. The first concerned arrangements for the Saar plebiscite and more especially the mainten.ance of order during the plebiscite period. The solution of this, he felt confident, had been greatly facilitated by the initiative of the United Kingdom Government in its proposal to contribute troops to the international force stationed by the League in the Saar and by the generous readiness of other countries to co-operate in the creation of such a force.

The second problem was even more difficult and constituted a more serious menace to preservation of peace. It arose out of the acute dispute between Yugoslavia and Hungary following the assassination of King Alexander, and here especial responsibility rested upon the representatives o f the British Government to maintain an attitude of scrupulous impartiality. The Council of the League could claim that in one week two problems, either of which might have seriously undermined good relations between the States of Europe, had been so dealt ■with as now to give a fair prospect of a satisfactory final conclusion.

EMIGRES FROM SAAR French Towns Not Anxious' to Have Them Paris, January 4. Sounded regarding the possibility of receiving 30,000 from the Saar if the plebiscite favours Germany, the principal French mayors and prefects, except the Mayor of Roubaix, who is a Socialist, replied discouragingly.