The Archive · 1937

Commons Anxiety

London, Oct. 26.

Some indication of the Government's policy over the Far East was asked by Mr. C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Labour Opposition, in the first stage of the debate on the Address of thanks to the King for his speech in the House of Commons to-day.- Tt was all very well to say, he declared, that the Government would persist in attempting, in ce-operation with other Governments, to mitigate the suffering caused by the Sino-Japanese conflict and to bring it to 9 onelusion. The important point, he Sssrted, was what kind of a conelu-

Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal Leader, referring to the hope expressed that the Brussels Conference would result in peace, said what was agitating their minds' was the quee~ tion: "What peace?"

Would the country most vociferous demanding peace, Sir Archibald asked, be Japan, or some other country asking, on her behalf, for peace on the basis of the possession of the Chinese provinces now occupied by Japah—Reuter.

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