NO DANGER OF WAR

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 5

NO DANGER OF WAR

SITUATION IN EUROPE,

SIB P. GIBBS’ IMPRESSIONS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.)

LONDON, Oct. 30. Sir Philip Gibbs in an article to the North American Newspaper Alliance says: “I am convinced that there is no danger of war in Europe for several years, but this is not good enough to convey a sense of security. We are advancing steadily towards war. Secret alliances for a new balance of power and arranging for espionage will be resumed. Armament makers are busy, naval estimates are being revised and the censorship is tightened. “The Junker mind within and without Germany is voicing the ideals of blood and iron, beating the jungle tomtoms and playing for time before the struggle. “Japan and Russia eye each other sullenly. All the hopes in the League are failing owing to the revival of faith in force.

“Possibly when the commanders issue the recruiting papers there will not he the same rally of youth as in 1914. A civil war may accompany an international war. There is a strong youthful pacifist movement in all the social strata of England. “The French generals’ view that if war with Germany is inevitable now is the time to strike is not shared bv the Radical Socialists nor by youth who are remembering 1914. French opinion was swinging towards a more liberal attitude towards Germany until the Nazi brutality created a recoil.”