The Archive · 1937

Britain Will Respond to Plea

Mr. Chamberlain Reassures House of Commons London, Nov. 23.

The appeal of the King of the Belgians at the Guildhall last week, in which he referred to the responsibilly of the British Empire consequent on its wide experience of world ceonomie problems. met_with cordial response, declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Cahmberlain, in the House of Commons yesterday.

The appeal, Mr. Chamberlain said, commanded the entire sympathy of the British Government; which was fully prepared to play its part in the search fora solution of the world's major economic difieulties.

In reply to Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labour member for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, the Prime Minister declared that the Government was taking definite, positive action, and cited as an instance the negotiations with the United States for a trade agreement.—Reuter.

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