PEACE RELIEF GIVES PLACE TO SHAHE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 9

PEACE RELIEF GIVES PLACE TO SHAHE.

BRITAIN'S SACRIFICE. Rung by Rung Down Ladder Of Honour. LL. GEORGE'S OUTBURST. 1 nl'r,| Prc« A»s«<Matinn. — I'r.pi rishl i Rprrirpft H 10 n rn > l-ON'DON, October J*. u ■ ' 'l".vri (ioorrro. speaking in Iho fit' lomplo, -hi <i tluit tho relief exr'r" 1 f, 'l a I ' n i' ill/- Munich meetin,r----n '"'-""nn- tu ho suffused win, due i.. t|,o purchase of peace ;lt !l "' price of oiiii-cionco ami Itritnin hn<| nut sjainnl : r.-ni.jiiiUit v. «, iho feveri-h d'einand Nm' icil I'iiin mont shuwcil. H'-rr 11 it iit li a. I not aimed at redress •■I *>udcten 'jriev a iicp*. Hp only wanted l<> I">1 i-Ii democracy which ho regarded ;H ' plflyuo spot W llCltcC ge r 111 s of I'C'd.Mii ...1,1,1 rro., the fr>>Tit ior into t Ipi ma n \ .

"We abandoned our pledges and handed over Czechoslovakia wrapped in the I niuii lack and tricolour of France to a. ruthless dictator who will deny freedom both to the ( /.cells and i.ermaiiK." he «tiid. "Our only excuse wa* our muddled defence preparations." ncferring to ( liina. .\hy--inia and Spain. Mr. Lloyd lieorw declared: "We have descended the ladder of dishonour runt' by rung. Can we l-h anv lower' Instead of ."iS nations we could not Lift two to follow us today. In the end there "ill ho no peace but war without t r lends." BRITAIN AND i .S.A. MINISTERS BROADCAST. (Received 12 noon ) LONDON, October 'J'i. Viscount Halifax. Foreign Secretary, in a broadcast to the United States. ► .lid that Britain has accepted America's desire not to be involved in remote disputes, but she is aware that America is following events in Kurope with acute interest. This is seen in the <diarp criticism* in the American Press against Britain's actions during' recent weeks. This was the bc-t proof that America felt as strongly as Britain about thin?* vital for the world to hold on to if international relations were to be put on a -i 'ire foundation. Criticisms, therei ire. brought America nearer than would i mil flVrence. throughout the crisis there were !.eiore Brita u two ine-capable facts, l'ii-tlv, that if Germany marched. Britain. France. Russia and others could not have saved Czechoslovakia t'l.im bpinjr overrun. Secondly, nations would have gone to war knowing that, statesmen after the war would not have been able to redraw C»ch boundaries »« they had been drawn at Versailles. Viscount Hallfa* P'«l<T a warm tribute tr. the peace effort* of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull.