The Archive · 1936

Mr. Eden on British Life and Character

No Quarrel with Others on Political Beliefs: Restraint} and Toleration Urged London, Oct. 18.

In: a speech at the Cutters! Feast at Shemeld to-night, the. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said tha Ue exited mo the Bell people a very general apd widespread Feeling of isteste for: those extreme Political doctrines which were being preached and fostered. in' diferent Terms in different. countries, 'Accompanying this distaste for extremes, tore' was. increased apprecialon of an inereacedatischment {othe free. institutions which they Had inherited from their Yathers and Which were an. expression of British 'There was no wish to quarrel with aunern "who "had prefered to adopt Aiferent' systems' of government. 'That was their own "amole, But. it was an affair of the Brith people, and very much their affatt that they hotta not part with their own methods or weaken Yn. loyalty" to Their own' institutions.

the midst of all the turmoil of preienttay Europe, the British might be'exeused for observing, with some pride," that. the machinery of cone Stitutlonal government contimicd 19 work smoothly, and that freedom, person and of thought was respected snd preserved.

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