Mr. Anthony Eden, said he agreed with Mr. Attlee' regarding the seriousness of the situation in the Far East, which had deteriorated since the House met yesterday.
The Government, Mr. Eden declared, deeply deplored these events, and all the more because it seemed as though quite recently the prospects of a betterment of international cooperation in the Far East were better than they ever had been. All that appeared to have gone for the time being.
"We continue convinced, in the interest of Far Eastern nations," declared the Foreign Secretary, "that peace should be preserved. Each Will get far more benefit by a policy which aims at elimination of enmities and ce-operation in peaceful development than any one of them will get from results of force."
Britain, Mr. Eden continued, would continue her policy of maintaining close contact with the United States Japan's Premier Tells Diet of Situation
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