BELGIAN TALKS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 11

BELGIAN TALKS

''British OfiBcial Wireless.)1

European Peace Helped GOOD RESULTS PROMISED

! , RUGBY, April 28. ; | British newspapers without esception share the view that the Foreign Beero* • tary's visit to Brussels was as valuable as it was cordial and that the conversations Mr Eden had there promise good xesults for the future of Europe. These contacts were not an. occasion for negotiation, but served to enable the statesmen to develop in outline various construetive ideas for turning, in the words of The Times, "the will to closer international collaboration, wherever it exists, to good account in the coming' months.,, One point that hag evidently created a very favourable impression in Great Britain is the tmquestionable determination of the Belgian Government to remain faithful to the League Covenant — a matter that has been placed beyond all doubt. The hope is expressed that ' the conversations will prove a hopeful prelude to wider European negotiations in the near future and that these will mark the beginning of a new period of international co-operation. j "Most Encouraging.'* The News-Chronicle describes Mr Eden's visit to Brussels as "One of the most satisfactory and encouraging visits abroad that the Foreign Secretary has ever mado." The Times thinks that after a further period of detailed study by the British and Belgian Foreign Offices, initiative which would base itself on & new programme of negotiation may be expected for the general purpose of creating security between Belgium and her great neigbbours in the East and the "West. The Manchester Guardian says that the insistence with which the Belgian Ministers emphasised the determination of their Government to remain faithful to the League was thoroughly appreciI ated by Mr Eden. ; I The Daily Telegraph thinks that the ! conversations are likely to be carried a stage further when Mr Ed,en, M. | Delbos (France), M. Spaak (Belgium), ! and other Foreign Ministers meet at ' Geneva for the special meeting flxecl for the last week of nest mOnth. j