WORLD TENSION

Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 17

WORLD TENSION

PRICE OF PEACE TERMS MR LLOYD GEORGE ON “AFFRIGHTED DEMOCRACIES" ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS URGED LONDON, November 11. (Received November 12, at 1 p.m.) World tension was the subject of a; broadcast to America by Mr Lloyd George, who, emphasising the storminess of the present era, declared that there was no disposition during the relief from the crisis to examine tKa terms “on which' the ' affrighted democracies escaped from the dictator. I*The first reaction to it was a. demand for stronger defences. . A two-Power or four-Power pact would not ensure peace, he said, bu| would merely disembarrass the aggressor States of democratic interference while the aggressors pursued their dsigns elsewhere. The only chance of world peace was an assembly of the great nations to discuss the best meanp of attaining it. '• . GERMANY’S FEROCIOUS POGROM. Sir Archibald Sinclair, who followed Mr Lloyd 1 George, after referring the fact that Germany was launching the most ferocious pogrom west of tha Vistula since the. Middle Ages, urged a redoublement of the efforts to solva the refugee problem and show Germany; that the price of her friendship with’ the other nations' was to stop persecuting and robbing the Jews and. then flinging them on to the charity of her. neighbours. Germany’s treatment of the Jews within her borders was her own affair, but when she drove them out she lifted the problem on to an international plane. She mast contribute towards the solution, at least to the extent of restoring their property. Moreover, he said, the Arabs must not be allowed to frighten Britain fron» a fulfilment of the pledges given t« the Jews of a national home in tine. •' '■■■■"• 1 • Britain, Sir Archibald added, could not hand over to Germany : any primitive Africans now enjbying impartial British rule. The real issue was whether we were prepared to defend the just, free, and truthful basis bf our civilisation against the principle of force on which dictatorship rested.