Mr. Chamberlain’s Part
Sir,—ln his address on Sunday night, the Hon. Mr. Barnard said that Mr. Chamberlain did his best to make M. Stalin believe that Britain would come to terms with Hitler. Surely that is an injustice to the man who actually declared war on Hitler, whereas it was M. Stalin who made a pact with him and made possible the German invasion of Poland, in which Russia afterwards shared. If Mr. Barnard had Munich in mind, it is fair to point out that Munich gave Britain another year in which to prepare—a year during which Mr. Chamberlain did his best to speed up rearmament, in spite of the opposition of the Labour Party, both in Britain and New Zealand, to compulsory training for the war that lay ahead. If M. Stalin’s pact with Germany can be defended on the ground that it gave Russia time to prepare, surely Mr. Chamberlain’s policy at Munich, can be defended .on the same ground? Whatever. Mr. Chamberlain’s faults it was he, and not M. Stalin who first challenged Nazism, and for that he is entitled to credit rather than cheap sneers, B. FAIR.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21092, 12 May 1943, Page 6
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