DISTURBING OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 7

DISTURBING OUTLOOK

MINISTERS CONFERRING IN LONDON AIMS OF BRITISH POLICY. BELIEF IN POSSIBILITY OF PEACE. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 11.4 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. Sir Nevile Henderson, Viscount Halifax and Sir John Simon had consultations with the Pr\me Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain. Tomorrow there, will be a meeting of ministers, at which the international situation and developments in Central Europe will be considered. The newspapers give great prominence to these ministerial consultations, as well as to the news from Prague of the negotiations with Herr Henlein’s party.

Concern has been aroused in official circles in London by the position in Central Europe, which is the subject of comment by political correspondents, who make clear that British policy is not directed in any sense favourable to one side or the other in the dispute, which, in its internal aspects, is no concern of Britain, nor is the Government interested to promote or influence any particular settlement. The essential purpose, of British policy in relation to the Sudeten problem is the preservation of European peace. It is believed in London that a peaceful and agreed solution is attainable if all contribute to make the most of opportunities to that end, and writers stress the British hope that all concerned will strive towards a reduction of tension and the removal of bitterness.