UNITED IN DANGER
LABOUR AND GOVERNMENT
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 24,
In the House of Lords the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, made a statement on similar lines to that of Mr. Chamberlain in the Commons.
Lord Snell said that as far as the Labour Party was concerned no words would be used which would give any sort of comfort to those who were hoping to see in England a disunited people. .When danger threatened, the British people stood together as one.
The issue at stake in Europe was whether the freedom built up by years of trial and effort and suffering should be preserved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 9
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190UNITED IN DANGER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 9
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