BRITAIN URGED TO AWAIT DECISIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 7

BRITAIN URGED TO AWAIT DECISIONS.

MINISTER'S ADVICE.

Viscount Halifax Appeals

To Public.

COURAGEOUS PEACE MISSION

United I'cess Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) LOXDOX, September 22. Viscount Halifax, Foreign Minister, in a statement, said he was sure all would wish Mr. Chamberlain well in his courageous mission for peace. "Meanwhile, I urge the public to refrain from forming premature conclusions and to wait the time when Mr. Chamberlain is in a position to place the country in the full possession of the facts." Earl Winterton, chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, in a speech at West Urinstead, said: "Keep a cool head and a clear judgment. The time of perplexity and crisis is by no means over. False optimism is as dangerous as black pessimism."

"Mr. Chamberlain is taking with him to Germany proposals which in tlie circumstances France and ourselves believe wc can honestly and honourably make and which Czechoslovakia accepted," said Lord Winterton, a

British official wireless message continues.

"It is. I think, a fact that but for Mr. Chamberlain's visit last week a conflagration would already have started which would have almost certainly enveloped all Europe sooner or later. Unhappily, since then, two European countries adjacent to Czechoslovakia and a large portion of the German Press have put forward proposals which go far beyond and, indeed, have nothing to do with the Sudeten German question. "These countries and newspaper!' should be under no delusion that there is any foundation for the belief that Britain would in any way favour these proposals."

CANADA NEUTRAL. Impossible with Britain at War. ~ f STATE GOVERNOR'S VIEWS. (Received 11.30 a.m.) WINNIPEG, September 22. "Canada could not remain neutral with Britain at war," the LieutenantGovernor of Manitoba, Mr. W. J. Tupper, told the Convention of Army and Navy Veterans of Canada. "No real Canadian believes such nonsense. Constitutional authority is all against it." Lieutenant-Colonel Webb asserted that his only regret was that at a time when Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have assured Mr. Chamberlain of support, Canada has not spoken. The "Montreal Star," in an editorial, suggests that Canada authorise Mr. Chamberlain to offer Herr Hitler Canadian wheat on long-term credits as a peace move, but not to give a bushel without peace assurance.