Mr. Chamberlain Welcomes President Roosevelt's "Timely Clarion Call": Views Endorsed London, Oct. 8. RESIDENT Roosevelt's declaration in his speech at Chicago regarding the sanctity of treaties, voiced the conviction of Great Britain ds well as of America, declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in an address to-day at a great party demonstration at Scarborough in connection with the Conservative Conferenct Describing it as a "'clarion call as welcome as it was timely in its utterance," Mr. Chamberlain recalled the impression, hitherto generally held, that the United States, the most powerful country in the world," would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. But, he added, the President had seen that if what he had called at Chicago an epidemic of world lawlessness was allowed to spread, no country would be safe from attack.
Tu his declaration regarding the necessity for a return to belief in the pledged word and the sanctity of treaties, the Prime Minister said, President Roosevelt had voiced the conviction of Britain as well as of America, and in his call for a concerted effort in the cause of peace the British Government was wholeheartedly with him, Early in his speech Mr. Ci lain pald a warm tribute fo the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, than whom, he said, no other mem: ber of the' Government was subject to s0 continuous and heavy steam.
Me. Eden, the Prime Minister declared, the country had a statesman Who combined the energy and vitality of youth with an unrivalled ex. perience of men and affairs in all parts of the world, and they had Feason to be grateful to him for, the tact and skill which he had devoted to the maintenance of peace and the care with which he had: watched over the country's interests.
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