BRITAIN’S FOREIGN POLICY

Evening Star, Issue 22143, 25 September 1935, Page 9

BRITAIN’S FOREIGN POLICY

DISCUSSED BY CABINET NO CHANGE IN POSITION (British Official Wireless.! Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 24. (Received September 23, at 11 a.m.) A meeting of the Cabinet was held in Downing street to-day. The Prime Minister presided, and there was a full attendance of Ministers, with the exception -of Captain Eden, It is understood that Cabinet considered the developments in the international situation which had occurred since the last meeting, and it is assumed that Sir Samuel Hoare, in reviewing the present position, acquainted his colleagues with the impressions gained on bis visit to Geneva, as well as with the latest reports received from Captain Eden. The attitude of His Majesty’s Government in foreign affairs, and in particular towards the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia, had been fully discussed by on several occasions, and carefully explained in Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech in the League Assembly on September 11, and in his speech in the House of Commons on July 12, and it is believed that the Cabinet found no reason to change in any way the policy which, it has been made clear in recent weeks, enjoys all but unanimous support of all parties and sections of public opinion. About two weeks ago the French Government instructed the French Ambassador in London to make inquiry regarding the attitude of Britain in the event of an act of aggression in Europe in relation to collective security. The British reply will be handed to the French Ambassador in the course of the next few days, and after it has been received by the French Government it will be published.