BRITAIN & GERMANY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10487, 25 November 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN & GERMANY

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THE FOREIGN POLICY SIR K. GREY'S MOTION. (Received Last Night, 10.45 o'clock.) LONDON, November 24. Tho motion which Sir Edward Grey moves on Monday will be: "That the foreign policy of the Government be now considered." It is noticeable that the "Times" and many other loading newspapers have been editorially silent regarding Herr von Kiderlin-Waechter's statement.

Sir John Brunner, presiding at the National Liberal Federation at Bath, declared that he was grateful to tho Kaiser for using his influence in the direction of peace. (Cheers.) "An angry word from him," continued tho speaker, "would have opened tho gates to Hell. I tender him my warmest thanks. Will you join?" After a unanimous response, Sir John Brunner added that he trusted that Sir E. Grey's speech would calm the angry ■feelings, and bo a hacking to the Kaiser's silence.

Sir''J. A. Simon urged that the relations between tho great powers would now depend, as a last resort, upon the views that the common people of one land would take of the common people of 'another. Our friendship for France did not, he said, mean that we were enemies to anybody else. He suggested that the meeting send a message to the democi-acy of Germany, declaring that the idea of ill feeling between them and us could noo be tolerated. (Cheers.)