Mr EDEN SURPRISED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 5

Mr EDEN SURPRISED

‘Belgium Leans To Germany’ Press Association —Copyright London, April 28. Mr Anthony Eden came back from Brussels a most disappointed: man, reporting that Belgium wants to negotiate a direct regional pact with Germany. He had hoped to get Belgium to enter negotiations for a new Locarno Treaty to replace the one brokn by the German march into the Rhineland. King Leopold and his Premier, Dr. van Zeeland, are stated to have preerred regional pacts to collective arrangements which might involve Belgium in European quarrels. The British Cabinet will now try to find a way in which Belgium’s desire to make private arrangements with her neighbours can be worked into a new Locarno. Mr Eden found the German influence in the ascendant in Belgium and evidence of a new European situation developing.