NOT WITH PEOPLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 5

NOT WITH PEOPLE

BRITAIN’S QUARREL BROADCAST TO GERMANS CHAMBERED AT N A SSUR ANC E CHALLENGE TO REGIME (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed Sept. 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, broadcast via a French wireless station early this morning “a proclamation" to the German people in which lie .said that Britain’s quarrel was not with the German people, but with the regime. A London message to the United Press of America sa.ys that Mr. Chamberlain in the periodic series ot broadcasts to the German people, declared that "nobody in Britain any longer places trust in the word of your leader.’’ He then listed broken promises over Austria, Czechoslovakia, Munich and Poland, and added: "He has sworn to you for years that he was the mortal enemy of Bolshevism,” said Mr. Chamberlain. "He is now its ally. Can you wonder that for us his word is not worth the paper it is written on?” The Independent Cable Service in London lias received a report from The Hague stating that Storm Troopers broke up groups of people in the streets and towns of western Germany criticising the hastiness with which Germany was plunged into war. An exceptional number of marriages took place yesterday. Special facilities were granted, but copies of “Mein Kampf” were not. handed out as previously.