In the B.B.C. news broadcast from London last night, it was reported that a proposal had been made in Shanghai to create a demilitarized zone around Shanghai: southern and western. boun-aries to include Nantao. It was further stated that the proposal had been rejected by the Japanese, States."
In his address to-day, Mr. Eden said the assailants of the Government's policy had failed to appreciate the difference between the Position of the United States at Geneva and the position she would occupy at the Brussels Conference.
"Surely," he declared, "the difference. is vital."
Mr. Eden continued, "It is not always easy to lift the veil of diplomatic secrecy, but in this case I feel I ought to make it plain that the initiative for the holding of the Conference in Brussels did not come particularly in Spanish and Pore tuguese, by listeners in South American countries and in Arabic by listeners in the Near East.
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