BRITAIN'S POLICY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 5

BRITAIN'S POLICY

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Isolation Impossible Says Lord Halifax

ANXIETY IN EUROPE

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(Received 4, 2.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. Replying for the Government in the debate on foreign affairs in the House of Lords, Lord Halifax said they had been warned in speeehes delivered about the dangers of isolation. "We can neither be isolated nor isolate ourselves, if we wished to do so. The future is always necessarily juncertain, but so far as it can b© defined, I suggest that the policy of the Government is crystal clear. "I share the anxiety of those who have spoken about the possibility of an eastern entanglement, and I am not oblivious to the greater danger in Western Europe, the result of possible complications in the East, linked by the Franco-Soviet Pact. If we are unable to define beforehand what migiht be our attitude to hypothetical complications in Oentral or Eastern Europe, that is not to say that we should not interest ourselves in the fate of those parts of Europe. ->"We have repeatedly maintained our attitudo to carry out our obligations under the Govenant, If those obligations are not .capable of precise deiinition, that is the defeat of the Covenant itself. Despite the weakemng of the League, that does not mean that this country is without influence or authority, which will always be used to pi'event any conflict arising."