Mr. Anthony Eden's review of the international situation made a
very favourable impression in the House. Though refusing to yield to the pressure of Mr. Lloyd George and to state what the Government proposals were with regard to the reform of the League • he dealt with it sufficiently fully to indicate what was in the Government's mind. His reference to Mr. Lloyd George's now famous assertion in the last foreign affairs debate that the people of this country " whatever Government is in power will never go to war again for an Austrian quarrel," was clearly deliberate and taken to indicate that the Government has no intention of disinteresting itself in the fate of Eastern Europe. That is particularly reassuring, since the general trend of opinion in the last few weeks among the rank and file of the Conservative Party has been to favour, so far as our foreign commitments, retirement behind the Maginot line and the defence of Holland, Belgium and France.
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