GERMANY'S WOUNDS
RUBBING IN THE SALT
MR. MACDONALD'S ARTICLE
LONDON, April 25. ■ The "News-Chronicle" (Liberal)' says it is believed that Mr. Mac Donald's article in "The Newsletter," in which he condemned Germany's policy, was, written without consulting Cabinet. An • authoritative quarter asks why ' he went out of the way to rub the salt into Germany's wounds. The "News-Chronicle," in a leader, says the nation has a right to know whether the statement was meant to carry the weight of a Government pronouncement. If so, it should not have appeared in a party journal. The "Daily Telegraph" (Conservative), commenting on Mr. Mac Donald's article, says the cause of peace is sometimes best served by absolute frankness. The Prime Minister's words represent the true mind of every Government in Europe, 'besides the British. The "Daily Herald" (Labour) comments on "this strange, perilous doctrine," and asks whether it is the considered opinion of the British Cabinet j that we are being- inevitably forced into military alliances. If so, then the country must be told whither this new policy is, leading.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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