DOMINIONS AND WAR
QUESTION OF HELP, \ FOR BRITAIN “NO CITIZEN ARMY FOR EUROPE” POSITION STATED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT.) (Received March 9, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. * In the House of Commons Mr W T . S. Sanders (Labour) asked what arrangements had been fnade with the Dominions for assistance in the event of war.
For the Government Major R. H; Rayner replied that the Dominions might be expected to concentrate first on their own needs, for all had danger zones. It was for them to decide, whether to join an Imperial war.
Dominion opinion, he said, did not favour sending a citizen army again to fight on t. European battlefield. Major Rayner added; “We cannot again depend on the Dominions to form a general reserve for a European front. We ought to consider holding an Imperial Conference to decide how the defensive policy of the Dominions can be fitted into a co-operative whole. We feel that the' Dominions,, having obtained sovereignty, should assume the responsibility for it. “It is not fair to us or good'business for themselves to claim freedom to decide whether to fight in a possible war, and simultaneously to rely on British arms for their defence.”
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 11
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203DOMINIONS AND WAR Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 11
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