YACHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 149, 21 December 1938, Page 22

YACHT CHAMPIONSHIP

SUGGESTED CONDITION

(Received December 21, 9 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

Notification has been received from the Queensland Eighteen-footer Club offering no objection to the world championship contest being sailed in New Zealand next February. The club, however, favours imposing a condition that the 1940 race should be sailed in Sydney whether the Auckland event is won by New Zealand or whether the title is retained by New South Wales.

policy comes from his own supporters who, encouraged' by the Prime Minister's immense popularity after the Munich accord, launched the idea of an election destined to wipe out the opposition parties. Mr. Chamberlain refused to compromise his own political reputation and the future of the Conservative Party by such a crude manoeuvre. But the enthusiastic promoters had gone too far, and he was obliged to make a public statement in the House of Commons, denying the need for an electoral appeal because the country in his view was unanimous behind his policy of appeasement.

In those circumstances Mr. Chamberlain could not declare an emergency existed so as to investigate the attitude of the* country towards such a radical reform as compulsory military service, which is inevitable if the British defences are to be manned. Mr. Chamberlain thought it necessary to give assurance against conscription in peace time because otherwise there would have been a contradiction with his own statement, about elections. It is, of course, only an adjournment of an inevitable measure of national safety.