WORSE THAN USELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 6

WORSE THAN USELESS

NEGOTIATIONS AT PRESENT WITH GERMANY MR EDEN’S DECLARATION WORLD SURFEITED WITH BROKEN PROMISES. SURRENDER OF COLONIES UNTHINKABLE. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON. November 21. ’ “To attempt negotiations with Germany under present conditions is to court not only failure, but humiliation," . declared Mr Anthony Eden, in a speech . at Leicester. “It is even unthinkable,” he added, “that Britain would ever contemplate discussions which might involve, however remotely, the transfer of populations, regardless of the conditions under which they would live. Concessions which might be at least discussable under some conditions become inconceivable under others. That, such is the mind of the British people ■ there can be no doubt. “Whether any Government is Fascist or Communist does not concern us. but its conduct does. There could not be confidence where one of the parties, by its treatment of a section of its population, denies all previous conceptions of progress in civilisation.” The world moreover was suffering, Mr Eden added, from a surfeit of broken promises. It was certain that the more we condoned breaches of international engagements the greater would grow the menace to the security of the British Empire, Alluding to the pogroms, Mr Eden said the treatment of Jews in Germany ha'd disgusted world opinion. He felt sure it had disgusted a large section of German opinion.