Britain's peace plan, Mr. Eden sal would establish eoclal' security: abroad: fag well as at home, It would stabil~ Bae ureencles, feed, starving, peoples and avert fluctuations of employment, prices and markets by co-ordinated efforts of Britain, the United States, the Dominions and South Americe 'Britain, Mr, Eden said, would seek peace arrangement "in' ways inter~ fering og little as possible with the proper liberty of each country over Lits own economic fortunes, What has Germany {6 offer on her side?" he asked, "Absolutely nothing."
The Foreign Secretary bid for the support of the Arab world by an~ nouncing that Britain would support any workable scheme for Arab unity. He expressed sympathy with Syrian aspirations for independence.
But,1 would go farther," Me, Eden said, "Many Arab thinkers desire for the Arab people a greater degree of unity than they now enjoy. In reach-Ing out toward this unity they ope for our support, No such appear from our friends should go unani Mr. Eden emphasized that Britain had no designs on Iraqi independence, He also said that subservience of Vichy to Germany was. bitterly Abhorrent to the great mass of the "Wasteful wantiine cultivations of] many lands will leave agriculture arnest os weak as industry. 'Thus. Europe will face a vast problem of general " demobilization " with a general lack of the necessary' means {o put men to work, Let none suppose, however, that we for our part intend 4o return to] the chaos of the old world. To do 0 would bankrupt us no less than others, When peace comes we shall make such relaxations in our wartime financial arrangements as, will permit revival of international trade the widest possible basis, We shall hope to see development of a system of international exchange in Which trading it goods and services will be a central feature,
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