STILL "ON TOP."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 11

STILL "ON TOP."

BRITISH EMPIRE'S STRENGTH

LORD, NUFFIELD CONFIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Pcpss Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. "The British Empire has been on top. is on top, and is still going to be on top, and if there is anyone who wants to tear it to pieces I can only say they will meet with disaster," said Viscount. Nuffield when referring to the recent European crisis in the course of a reply to a toast to him at a dinner given in his honour by the chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, Ltd., Sir Charles Norwood, to-night. Lord Nuffield said that the next war would be a world war, but he hoped the nations would all see reason in future and obviate such a catastrophe. "Coming as I do from the other side of the world," Lord Nuffield said, "where not so long ago a crisis prevailed, I would like to try to give a little comfort to people so away, for the reason, that I do not think that ou many occasions you get the right information at this distance. At the time of the crisis we were all very worried, but not afraid. "I can say here to-night, the Army and Navy at that time had never been in better condition in the history of England. We were certainly short in the air, but had it been necessary to fight I think the other people would have found that we had more strength than they expected."