HAUNTING FEAR OF WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22892, 25 February 1938, Page 9

HAUNTING FEAR OF WAR

HOSTILE CAMPS IH EUROPE BRITAIN'S ROLE AS PEACEMAKER (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 23. The Home Secretary (Sir Samuei Hoare), speaking at a National Chamber of Trade lunch in London, said that for months past Europe had seemed to be irrevocably splitting itself into two hostile camps. Both were arming with feverish activity. In both alike there were very dangerous rumours of an inevitable clash. The British Government was not prepared to accept the inevitability of war. It did not believe .that a catastrophe must come, and it was determined to make a sustained effort to drive the haunting fear of war out of the hearts of men and women in Europe. It might fail in its attempt, but he asked the country to believe in its integrity. This, said Six Samuel Hoare, was no cowardly or shady negotiation upon which the Government had embarked; it was an honest attempt to face the causes of the differences and remove them, with honour and justice to both sides. Nor was ’it in any sense a sacrifice of oldi friends. If they wished to make new friends there could be no question of abandoning old ones.