AFFAIRS IN BRITAIN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 November 1933, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN BRITAIN

(Press Assn.—

BIG- IMPROVEMENT MR. BALDWIN REVIEWS THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE GOVT. WILL FULFIL ITS MANDATE

-By Telegraph— Copyrlght).

(Rec. 8.10 p.m.) London, Nov. 28. In the House of Commpns, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replying to the der bate on the Labour amendment to the Address-in-Reply reviewed all the financial measures the Government had taken resulting in a return of confidence which tw.o years ago had seemed impossible. Unemployment had certainly declined and imports and exports were rising. He admitted that despite all efforts at assisting industry, there must be numbers of citizens for whom there could he little hope of finding work in Britain while' the gates of emigration were still closed against them. Turning to foreign affairs, Mr. Baldwin said that the present conditions were extraordinary. He believed that the people agreed that Britain could not keep any other country permanently in an inferior armament status. He hoped that there would be a real change in Germany for that country was faced with vast internal problems, with vast masses of unemployed. She needed peace; did she want it? He hoped so. Britain, France and Italy must keep in direct'touch and find lines .on which progress cquld be made. He saw no reason why Germany should pot ultimately be brought to a final agre.emeht within tho four corners of the League'Conr vention, and then back to the League. This would greatly facilitate the ideal of disarmament which all wanted but which few believed possible in the immediate future. Of the

French, said Mr. Baldwin, he would merely say that they and the British were inheritors and possessors of great civilisations. "If what we have were lost, in my view, the world would not be worth living in," he said. Mr. Baldwin concluded by stating that the Government was in every way worrying out its election mandate. "We are not half way through," he . said, "but we have made considerable headway. We have no idea of separating or relaxing our efforts nntil we feel that we can return our mandate -and seek a renewal of the electors' cpnffdence." The Labour amendment was defeated by 424 votes to 53.