GRAVE INCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 11

GRAVE INCIDENTS

DOMINIONS' INSISTENCE

CALM VIEW OF SPANISH CRISIS

TALKS IN LONDON

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. , (Received June 2, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. Instead of having to await dispatches or to exchange views by telegraph, the Dominion Prime Ministers, in consultation with the British Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, and other Cabinet Ministers, were able today to deal with the Spanish crisis on the spot at this morning's meeting of the Imperial Conference. It was originally intended to continue the foreign affairs discussion and to deal with the Far East situation, but the crisis completely altered the programme. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, dealt entirely with Spain, explaining the latest situation, and outlining the British representations. -The Prime Minister of each Dominion participated in the discussion. The Australian Associated Press agency understands that the Dominion representatives fully approved Mr. Eden's emphasis of the necessity for regarding the situation calmly, in conjunction with appealing to Herr Hitler not to make the situation graver. The morning's discussions provided a further opportunity for the Dominions' delegates to indicate in very plain words their insistence that England and the Dominions must at all costs strive not to be embroiled by such incidents, which are not Empire affairs. Nothing has emerged more clearly from the conference than that the unanimity of the Dominions on this point has been persistently expressed with the greatest forcefulness by every Prime Minister, i