MR. JORDAN AND MR. EDEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 120, 7 June 1937, Page 7

MR. JORDAN AND MR. EDEN

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■ iiir» . • Story of Alleged Claih OFFICIAL DENIAL

(By Tdejrraph-

, LONDON) jrttte 5. ! Tha Kew Zealand Government OfScB is upset by Mr Vernon Bartlett 's article in thfe Nfews-Ghroaicife wMfch, etating that the principal delegatfee at the Impefiai Cfehffeteflcfe mide it feleM to Mr Eden that rfestoration of the League'e prestige was of vital infc' pfeft&nfee to. them, xfefferfc tfe S hfe ii&iM between Mr Eden and Mr Jordan at Geneva on May 29. 'It ife noW -fairly Widely khfeilim. that Mr Edfen brought thfe zdfest, auninai pressure td be&r oh Mr Jord&tt in bidii that hfe shoiila &ay nothing which mifht enfeoUragfe thfe gpafiish Governf&fent «j pffend Germany and italy* Mr Jordan waS iffipresfeed by SenOt Del Vayo4 overwhelming fevidente of GermaM iftd Xtalian cfentempt for their hoh-inier-vention pledgfes and was about to pre pose the problfem that Spain ■henld bi morfe or less transferred from tho Noa* Intervention Committfee to the LeagUe. "Mr Eden dissuaded hun from doing any thing of the sort, bttt Only by methods which have o&ended Nfew Zealanders and all other D0mini6n teptosentatives who attach importance fo the independence guaranteed thfem bj the St&tute of Westminster,315 S&id Mr Bartlett. Mr Jordan, intervieWed by thfe AuStralian Associated Press, reiterated his previohs deftiai. "i &&. too jfeiidui oi thfe pofeition of NeW Zfealand ih thfe League to subjecf it td the nndtife ihfluence of any oihfer deiegatfe. ^ NfeW Zealand counts as onfe in the Le&gtie as does the Hnited Kingdom. Any suggestion that i was Sw&yed by nri-j usual pressure from Mr Edeh is tbso-' lutely incorrecfc.- It is absurd alsfe toi siiggest that I of othfer NeW Zfe&landfefli >atfe offfended by auything Mr Edfeh iS fs&id te h&vfe donfej "•*" aascnxt *