The Foreign Secretaty stressed that a great amount of preparatory work had to be done through alplomatic channels before the tve-Power meeting could usefully take place, adding. that, although many obstacles {yet remained to be surmounted, they haa reached a stage where a. genuine siti of collaboration existed' among til concerned "Turning to' the new Straits Convention "reached at. Montreux, he declared that the most. important {esson of the conference was that it had been shown that treaty revision by. negotiation and. agreement, in accordance. with the normal. proce fdure end. principles of international relations, could lead to. a soldoment more favourable to all. concerned
engagements by unilateral action. than a method of repudiation of realy conference, he added, tad undoubted: {y Brought a closer and more cordial Understanding. between the British fand Turkish Governments.
'After detailing measures taken for the safely of British nationals in areas of danger, Mr. Eden said he had. telegraphed to' the Spanish Foreign Minister on this matter and was glad. to say that the Spanish Government had accepted all points put to it within the limits of its capacity.
With regards to the projected re form of the League of Nations, the Foreign Secretary emphasized that the Government's objective was to widen and strengthen the basis of inter: ational collaboration, but declined fo make a detailed statement which, he said, would only prejudice th meeting' to be held by the League in September.
He reiterated the Government's willingness to discuss at an international conference the question of giving foreign countries freer access. fo raw materials from mandated Turning to the question of tha transfer of mandated territories he said that it affected all mandatory Powers. The British Government had not yet consulted with other Powers fon the subject, but, as far as' it was concerned, the question would inevitably raise "grave dimeulties, moral, political and legal, to which they would not be able to find any solution.
The Government hoped, he con: cluded, that, with so. many international questions unsolved, there would be no desire of any quarter to introduce further causes of serious differences between nations.—Reuter,
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