FROM GLOOM TO HOPE LONDON REJOICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 10

FROM GLOOM TO HOPE

LONDON REJOICES

AN OFFICIAL WARNING

TOO MUCH NOT TO BE'

EXPECTED

CRISIS STILL PERSISTS

(United Pi-ess Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received September 29, 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, September 28,

The entire country suddenly passed from gloom and foreboding to hope after hearing the news of the Munich conference. Mr. Chamberlain's cry to the crowds in Downing Street, "It's all right this time," was taken up everywhere as a miracle phase, coming, when the nation knew it could not be nearer war, and with war preparations and precautions being pushed qn day and night.

Despite the realisation ■ that Europe's troubles are by no means ended, everyone again feels able to breathe more freely. The West End went wild with enthusiasm after hearing Mr. Chamberlain's announcement. Matinees were interrupted, the audiences greeting the repetition of the Premier's dramatic words with long cheering.

While the country is rejoicing over the respite, the Government has taken pains to make it clear that too much must not be hoped for. -The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, made a statement after the rising of the House of Commons emphasising that it was in the interests of everyone that the precautions, including the distribution of gas masks, the digging of trenches, and organisation of first aid should be pushed on to completion as rapidly as possible. Having begun her preparations, England is determined not to be caught unawares while a state of crisis persists.