NOT UNDERSTOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 11

NOT UNDERSTOOD

BRITAIN'S MIND

WHERE HITLER FAILED

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received September 21, 1 p.m.)

RUGBY, September 20,

"Another Power has committed an act of aggression," said Mr. Greenwood in the House of Commons. "Ttiere can be no doubt as to that fact. There can be no doubt that the justification offered is one which reasonable people who have had, as we have had, knowledge of previous acts of aggression could not accept for one moment. But it is difficult to weigh the reactions and repercussions of Sunday's events. Speculation is useless."

Joining in Mr. Chamberlain's tribute to a magnificent and heroic nation, Mr. Greenwood went on to express regret that it had not been possible to bring the Allies' assistance more swiftly to Poland, although perhaps no help could have enabled Poland to...withstand the joint assault of the Germans and the Russians. > The fact that Britain was not able to move for her before lay on his conscience. The lesson from this was important—in future the country's friends should receive certain and generous help. Mr. Greenwood said that Herr Hitler failed to understand the mind of! Britain. "He fails to realise that the fact of Poland being partially dismembered and disabled does not weaken, but strengthens, our determination."

Mr. Greenwood expressed concern lest the dislocation of normal trade at Home in the early days of the war should result in a big increase in unemployment and waste of available labour resources at a time when the service of every man and woman should be co-ordinated into a gigantic national effort to bring the war to a successful conclusion —apprehension which was likewise expressed by Sir Archibald Sinclair.