PREMIER RESTATES POLICY TO HUSHED HOUSE
/ IMMINENT PERILS OF WAR (British Official Wireless.) Frees Asecfciation—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, August 24. If' (Received August 25, at noon.) Confronted, as Mr Chamberlain said, “ with the imminent perils of war,” a crowded and hushed House of Commons listened to the Prime Minister’s momentous statement of the issues raised by Nazi Germany’s actions and threats and Britain’s determination to yield nothing to force. They heard from him that in a communication made yesterday to Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden by Sir Nevile Henderson it was made plain that “if a case should arise Britain was resolved and prepared to employ without delay all the forces at her command,” and they cheered his final appeal that in this critical hour they should show the world that “ as we think so we shall fight—as a united nation.” The peril of the situation and the possible imminence of war are indicated by the intensive air raid precautions, cancellation of sailings, the recall of North Sea trawlers, and removal of the national treasures to the coimtry.
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Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 9
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