Lord Halifax' special visit to Germany gives snather indication of the complexity of foreign affairs in Europe to-day. The ordinary machinery at the disposal of Governments is quite inadequate to cover their scope. Mr. Anthony Eden long threatened to acquire e capacity of Sir Boyle Roche's ubiquitous bird. His presence at the Brussels Conference has, as it were, been sandwiched in between important engagements in Parliament and elsewhere. The United States of America has made a useful attempt to solve the problem by her creation of the post of Ambassador-at-Large which Mr.
man Davis fills so elegantly. M. Spaak, the President of the Brussels Conference, and Foreign Minister of the Belgian Government, has to-day to prepare to accompany King Leopold on the state visit to London. That. no doubt, Will be a pleasant experience but it involves plan igements on which much may depend lifax carries with him exceptional authority as he interprets British policy to Herr Hitler. To begin with. he is well-liked germans and, ever since the passing of the ment of India Act eliminated the diffe him and the right-wing of the Conservative Party. he has rapidly regained his ascendancy as a leading representative of reasonable Conservative opinion in England—an sseendaney which loses nothing from the respect which he also commands among Liberals and, in a less degree, Labour politicians, It characteristic of him that his visit for which a on-diplomatic cause has to be assigned, narily for the purpose of attending the Into rational Horse Show at Berlin, Apart from Church and State matters, horses may be said te exact from Lord Halifax an affection and interest which no amount of travelling or cam ing can diminish.
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