MR EDEN’S WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 5

MR EDEN’S WARNING

ERROR TO BE AVOIDED. MISUNDERSTANDING OF 1914 RECALLED. LONDON, September 12. Mr Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to “The Times” today, says that it would be the gravest tragedy if the world were again plunged into conflict through a misunderstanding in the minds of the British people.- “We are often told,” says the letter, “that war in 1914 would never have broken out had Britain’s attitude been clearly understood in time.” SUPPLIES ASSURED. FRANCE ABLE TO MEET EMERGENCY. (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. The British United Press Paris correspondent says Cabinet has examined war-time economic possibilities and learned that supplies of fuel and basic necessities are assured. France will not be caught short as she was in 1914. M. Daladier held a conference with Army chiefs when he reviewed the military measures taken and outlined steps that could be taken in an emergency.

RELIEF IN FRANCE DEFINITION OF BRITISH ATTITUDE CONFIDENT ANTICIPATION OF SUPPORT. GATHERINGS IN LONDON. LONDON, September 12. The restatement of the British attitude regarding Czechoslovakia has caused relief and satisfaction in Paris, where a statement is.semi-officially circulated in the following terms:— “It is stated in the most authoritative British circles that Great Britain cannot stand aside from a conflict in which the security of France may be threatened.” Paris regards this version as having the unconditional note for which French statesmen have long been appealing. Mr G. Ward Price, the “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Nuremberg, says that, although Hitler will not say or do anything likely to bring the risk of war, he will insist on a settlement before the winter of the Sudeten problem. Nazi leaders say that a reorganisation of Czechoslovakia’s foreign relations—for instance, her alliance with the Soviet—will be an essential feature of any settlement. In London today all Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord Stanley, Dominions Secretary, and Lord Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, assembled at No. 10 Downing Street at 11 o’clock. Two thousand people, who had early crowded Downing Street, were cleared away by mounted police, who took up positions in Whitehall. Mr ChamberTain walked in St. James’s Park with his wife before the meeting.

COAIMENT IN, LONDON SUDETEN’S CLAIMS FAIRLY MET DENUNCIATION OF GOERING’S OUTBURST (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 12. The unity of the nation behind the Government in its counsels of moderation and efforts for a peaceful solution of the Czechoslovak problem was reflected in the newspapers while awaiting Hitler’s speech. The “Times’” said: “With- his hazardous talent for dramatic politics, Herr Hitler has kept for the last day of the Nuremberg Conference any announcement he may choose to make on the gravest international problem that has arisen since the end of the war, and the world not unnaturally waits in suspense until he has spoken. Dr Benes's broadcast of Saturday was a model of what a public utterance should be at such a time of critical suspense. Different indeed was Marshal Goering’s speech. That was the pattern of a wrong approach to an international dispute and it is discouraging for the victory of common sense that it apparently roused his audience to a frenzy of enthusiasm.” After describing the speech as an “echo of Prussianism” and as “boastful and ill-tempered,” the “Times” adds: “It was in fact the speech of a bully whose fury makes even sympathisers with the German case forget whatever there is in that case for legitimate sympathy. The last set of Czech proposals remove altogether whatever might legitimately have been regarded as a grievance by the Sudetens, and only leave unsatisfied certain claims which would place them in a privileged position in the state.”