Labour Opposition, has written to the Prime Minister requesting that arbament should be summoned to discuss the grave international situation, This step was foreshadowed in a statement issued after Wednesday's meeting of the National Council of Labour at Blackpool, This statement, calling for a positive and unmistakable lead for collective defence, was unanimously endorsed "t yesterday's session of the Trades Union Congress, The Congress also rejected a suggestion for the use of direct industrial action on the issue òf the Government's foreign policy, The situation in Czechoslovakia was under review by the Prime Minister and Lord Hálifax both in the morning and the afternoon yesterday, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon; Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, and Sir Robert Vansittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser accompanied the Foreign Secretary to both conferences.
In the course of the afternoon Mr.
Chamberlain also saw a number of his Cabinet colleagues, including the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, and the Minister for the Ca-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip.
Lord Halifax also received the Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Maisky, at the Foreign Office, and the Polish Charge d'Affaires.—Reuter,
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