DESIRE FOR WAR AGAINST GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 9

DESIRE FOR WAR AGAINST GERMANY.

BRITISH FACTION.

Allegation Made by London

Correspondent.

CHURCHILL, EDEN AND CO

I'nitod Press Association. Cup J riylit. (Ileeeived n.:;n a.m.) ISKIvLIN, .111110 17. Tlic {dictation that .Mr. Winston < 'liurchill, .Mr. .Anthony Eden ami others load a Rrilisli faction desiring war with (Jciniany, is made hv the "J >eut selie A lliremeine Zeitnnjr'' Lon<l <m corivsjxindent.

Hi' asserts that a change lias <k<• nrrcil in lirit i-U <>]>iiii<m since tin* hlkoi |it ion lit' .\u-tri;i ■; really si relict licniii«r antiCcrman < (11 ;i it crs. Mr. ( liiimlii'i lain. \ isconnt Halifax and also sonic Left Win- members liiie<|ui v oca M v desire peace, but (lie <ioveintnent camp includes a war faction.

Mr. Churchill's influence may he Small, but Mr. Kden's is growing because of the delay in the agreement between Hritain and Italy, and the continual ion of the Spanish war and the Chechoslovakian incident.

The war faction also find#, support in the City, besides high officialdom within the Government. It is no longer sufficient, the correspondetit says, for -Mr. Chamberlain, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoare to repudiate the inevitability of war thesis when highlyplaced people in j>rivate conversation declare the opjrosite.