PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22804, 1 September 1939, Page 10

PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

“Every Day Improves Position” MR. LEE MARTIN’S REMARKS TO MEAT PRODUCERS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, August 31. “One does not like to say much about the future, because one does not know what is going to happen from day to day,” said the Hon, W. Lee Martin at a luncheon .tendered by the Meat Producers’ Board to delegates to the annual meeting. “We are very glad that the position to-day is somev'hat easier than it was a few days ago, and every day that we can stall off improves the' position in regard to peace. ( “If hostilities should break out, then your responsibilities will be very much greater, and will call for the very highest qualifications of statesmanship in "dealing with the position. I do not know, and nobody here knows, just what the position will be, but if we have succeeded in securing recognition of the solution of these difficulties by negotiation rather than by force of arms, which proposal has been put forward by the Imperial government, then I think that the British Prime Minister will go down in history as one of the greatest Prime Ministers that ever occupied ■■ that position.” .All-were hoping that the position would be settled by negotiation,' said the Minister, and if that were the case there' would be the possibility of securing something that would" be in tie nature of a lasting peace.