PREVENTING WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1938, Page 12

PREVENTING WAR

MAY BE LAST CHANCE

STRAIGHT WORD TO

GERMANY

T.U.C. PRESIDENT'S

COUNSEL

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received September 6, 2.10 p.m.)

LONDON, September 5

In. opening the Trade Union Congress at Blackpool Mr. H. Elvin, the president, declared that the three great issues of Democracy or Fascism, Peace or War, and Socialism or Capitalism were all linked. - If the Powers, including Britain, had not betrayed their trust when Germany marched into the Rhineland the world would have been saved for democracy.

He denounced Japanese aggression and air massacres in China, and condemned the rape of Austria, and added: "Is Czechoslovakia to be the next? If not, why have not Britain, France, and Russia plainly told Germany she must keep off the grass?" This brave democracy must not be thrown to the wolves. No pressure must be brought on the Czechs to succumb to Germany's ruthlessness. This may be Europe's last chance to prevent another world war. "Germany," he declared, "owing to her outrageous expulsion of Jews, ought to be outlawed until she'realises that barbarism does not pay. Before Germany presses her claims on behalf of minorities elsewhere she should put her own1 house in order."