London, Oct. 21.
"There will be no indifference on the part of the Government where it is clear that vital British interests are threatened," declared Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary,
situat luring a debate on foreign EET to the Mediterranean affairs in the House of Commons, which reassembled for the first time to-day after the summer recess.
British rearmament, he said, bore in it neither overt nor latent strains Of revenge, either in the Mediterranean or anywhere else.—Such sentiments were wholly alien to the British character, and even were the Government to harbour them which it does not the British people would be willing to give effect to "Our position in the Mediterranean," Mr. Eden added, "is simply this, We mean to maintain the right of way on this main arterial. road. We are justified in expecting that such a right of way should be unchallenged. We have never asked, [and we do not ask to-day, that the right should be exclusive."
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