Member for Derby. called the Prime Minister's attention to the declaration of the Assembly of the League of Nations on March 11, 1932, to the effect that it was incumbent on the Members of the League not to recognize any situation, treaty or agreement brought about by means contrary to the Covenant or the Pact of Paris, and asked whether His Majesty's Government still state-accepted this ment of their obliga-international tions, Chamberlain said that, as stated by the. then Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in December 1936, His Majesty's Government adhere to the principle enunciated in the declaration which was made in connection with the particular case of the Siro-Japanese dispute.
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the Prime Minister stated, Mr Eden had gone on to indicate that in its application to any case His Majesty's Government must be entitled to take account of the facts of the situation, and of the necessity of adequately protecting British interests. Any such action on their part would not imply approval of the methods by which the situation was brought about.
These views, Mr. Chamberlain concluded, still correctly represented the attitude of His Maj Government on this subject—Wireless and Reuter,
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