Far Eastern Problem Has Special Character: Main Tasks Defined: U.S.
Ca-operation Is Vital London, Oct. 28.
League of Nations remained the basis of British foreign policy, declared Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in a lengthy speech in the House of Commons to-day devoted mainly on Geneva's strenuous efforts to settle the Sino-Japanese dispute, Lord Cranborne, who intervened in the debate on the Address, refuted Opposition charges that the omission of a direct allusion to the League in the King's speech meant that the Government had abandoned the League.
That was a conclusion, he said, as unwarranted as if they hi argued that the absence of mention in. the speech of the maintenance of the Constitution heralded the policy of a Red revolution.
Im the Far East, Lord Cranborne
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