The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, was questioned in the House of Commons to-day regarding the conditions of the intended engagements to support, by armed force, France and Belgium in the event of an act of Mr. Eden replied: "Engagements. of this country in the matter of assistance to France and Belgium under the Treaty of Locarno are clearly defined in that. instrument. While 1 cannot undertake, while negotiations for a new treaty are in progress, to discuss possible pro visions of that treaty, it is the inten tion of H. M. Government that the scope of their obligations in the new treaty should approximate as closely possible to those in the Treaty of Uocarno.—Witeless through Reuter.
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