CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 September 1939, Page 5

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—‘•COPYRIGHT.! (Received September 8, 1 p.m.) OTTAWA, September 7. The emergency session of Parliament opened, and adjourned until tomorrow, without taking action. Lord Tweedsmuir, in his Speech from tlie Throne, said that Britain was honouring her pledges, given as a means of avoiding hostilities, and had become engaged in war with Germany. Parliament had been summoned to give the Government authority for measures necessary for the defence of Canada, and “for co-operation in the determined effort which is being made to resist further aggression, and to prevent an appeal to force intend of to pacific means of settlement of international disputes. I need not speak <or the extreme gravity' of the hour. There can have been few, if any, more critical in the history, of the world. My Ministers are convinced that Canada is prepared to make a united national effort, to defend to the utmost the liberties of the institutions which are our common heritage.” Lord Tweedsmuir did not disclose details of co-operation with Britain. The Prime Minister’s declaration on the subject can be expected to-mor-row.

A White Paper was tabled, similar to that in the British Commons, and, in addition, the Prime Minister’s peace appeals to Poland, Germany and Italy, the British note, and the ultimatum to Germany' and the German reply.