London, May 30.
Simultaneously with the speech of Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, at Mansion House yesterday, the House of Commons on a motion to adjcumn for a Whitsun recess debated the question of announcing Britain's postwar aims.
The principal speaker was Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Liberal member for Wolverhampton, East division, who is himself an author of a comprehensive plan of postwar reconstruction.
Mr, Mander Reechoed Lord Halifax's words in advocating "the possibility of utilizing the British Commonwealth as a bridge to greater world unity.
"We ought to convince the German people we are not going to make slaves of them as they would of us," he said, but there would te a refusal to make peace With Hitler, because "it was no good having conferences with crooks and gangsters whose words you cannot trust" This theme predominated throughout the debate.
As Government spokesman, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, wound up the debate briefly by drawing attention to Mr. Eden's statement and then confined himself to the statement that it would be the greatest mistake to give the impression that Britain was not fighting for the greatest social security at home and throughout the world. as also for freedom for which Europe always had had to fight for and which it would achieve with Britain's help.
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