CALL ON BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 5

CALL ON BRITAIN

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT INEVITABLE NEED OF STATING POLICY. UNITED STAND AGAINST AGGRESSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, April 10. “The Times,” in a leading article today, says: “The decision to summon Parliament was inevitable. With every country within striking distance of Germany and Italy wondering where the next blow would fall and who would be the next victim, the Government must be able to state a policy on behalf of a united country. “It will have an opportunity to formulate speedy and practical measures to ward off aggression against possible victims, and must build up a common front so that a threat to one may be met by the united strength of all. KING IN LONDON PRIME MINISTER WAITS ON HIS MAJESTY. (British Official Wireless., (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. The King returned from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace this evening for a few hours and gave Mr Neville Chamberlain an audience. STATE OF STRAIN IN MANY PARTS OF EUROPE. REPORTS OF PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. /recording to Press messages the Ministerial and diplomatic activity in London has been paralleled in other capitals, particularly Paris, where there is reported to have been a meeting of the French Cabinet. Newspapers give some prominence to agency telegrams regarding measures in a number of countries, which would appear to be of a precautionary character. These refer, for example, to the curtailment of army leave in France and the manning of frontier posts in Holland. There is at present no official confirmation in > London of many of these reported steps, which, it is pointed out, while they have no special significance which could cause alarm, are indicative of the state of strain which has resulted in every part of Europe from the fresh blow at confidence administered by Italy in Albania. MANY MEETINGS MINISTERS AND DIPLOMATS IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. This afternoon 1 the Foreign Committee of Cabinet held another meeting which was attended by Mr Neville Chamberlain. Sir John Simon, Viscount Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mr Oliver Stanley and Mr W. S. Morrison, while Earl Cadogan also was present. Earlier today the Defence Ministers and Earl Stanhope and Major L. Hore-Belisha, Sir Kingsley Wood, and Lord Chatfield, together with Mr W. S. Morrison, who ’is assisting Lord Chatfield in defence co-ordination' questions, were in conference at the offices of the Committee of Imperial Defence. In addition to these meetings Ministerial consultations, arising out of the international situation created by the Italian occupation of Albania, included an interview this morning between Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, who previously received the Russian Ambassador, M. Ivan Maisky.