DALADIER'S EFFORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 9

DALADIER'S EFFORTS

AVERTING WAR

DEFENCE OF LIBERTY

APPEAL- TO FRENCHMEN

(Received August 26, 11.50 a.m.)

PARIS, August 25. The Prime Minister (M. Daladier), broadcasting to the nation, said:

"All my efforts are being directed towards averting war. I still believe that by free and loyal negotiation the worst will not happen.

"The Danzig question has menaced peace only because it affects the life and liberty of Poland. If we permit the murder of small countries and allow, a spirit of domination in Europe it would soon be directed against Franca -

"It is necessary to assure the liberty and independence of all nations. If that was refused it would be a crime against the honour of humanity.

"Britain and her Empire are assembling their forces just as ourselves. France and Britain form a single bloc to defend liberty. Let us hope in- this solemn hour that, despite everything, wisdom and reason will prevail, but if all our efforts are useless we appeal to the courage of all Frenchmen and to their will to undergo hardships."

M. Daladier paid' a tribute to Britain's resolution and commended the appeals of King Leopold, the Pope, and President Roosevelt.

Colonel Charles Sweeny, who organised the American volunteers in France in 1914, stated that an American infantry division of 10,000 men would enter a war on the side of the allies without delay in the event of hostilities. . . ■;