Mr. Snowden's Address

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 9, 13 September 1929, Page 4

Mr. Snowden's Address

eee Received in Wellington R. SNOWDEN’S address wds heard by a local Wellington amateur with a short-wave set on loudspeaker with wonderful clarity from 7.385 to 8.18 on Tuesday morning (9.5 ‘to 9.48 o'clock the previous night at 2LO) relayed from 58SW, Chelmsford. It was a modest, eloquen* and drama ~ tie story of the splendid fight put up) successfully by the British delegation. « The personal triumph of Mr. Snowden ‘was not emphasised in the least, and he paid a fine tribute to the efforts of M. Jaspar and M. Briand to bring about the settlement. Mr. Snowden gave a graphic and thrilling description of the Jast scenes when the conference was on the point of breaking and seat;: for the delegates had actually been- booked in the Paris express. He pictured the last moments’ meeting with the Continental delegates in one room and the British in another and M. Jaspar passing from one room to another as intermediary. When M. Jaspar brought the first inerease of £100,000 on the previously rejected offer, Mr. Snowden replied, "You have obtained £100,000 in half an hour. At that rate you will bring them up to our figure by midnight. Be not weary in doing good!" om And at 11.45 p.m., the final offer was made and. accepted, said Mr. Snowden, and he claimed that the efforts of the British delegation had re-established Britain’s prestige in Europe. He added that the storm of criticism of Britain in the Continental Press was really more amusing than irritating, and he instanced their desperate ‘efforts to find anything to fling at Britain. He remarked that one French cartoon had dragged in Britain’s treatment of Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and the banishment of Napoleon! Mr. Snowden said that under the arrangements for the evacuation of the Rhineland, the last of the British troops should have left there by Christ«, mas. He has a splendid voice for the microphone and after his eloquent ac.count of the negotiations one does not wonder so much at the success of the Socialist Government.