The Week in Parliament Out Parliamentary Correspondent writes :—The House
of Commons is completely bewildered at the Foreign Policy of the Government. Members did not particularly like some of the proposals of the Locarno Powers, but they cannot understand why, once having made them, the British Government then went behind the back of France and made a personal appeal to Herr Hitler to produce alternative proposals if he did not like them. Now Government apologists are insisting that they were only put forward as " a basis of negotiation." Why then in that case, members are asking, arc there inspired threats in the French Press that France will leave the League if Herr Hitler's alternative proposals are given consideration ? It is regarded as almost incred- ible that the British Government should not have received assurances at the outset from M. Flandin tliat the French Government agreed with them that the original proposals were only a basis for negotiation. They arc anxiously speculating as to whether M. Flandin has not in fact gone back on his word.
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