EUROPE WILL Soon Reach Its Climax

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 5

EUROPE WILL Soon Reach Its Climax

PEACE OR EXPLOSION Armed Britain Might Turn the Scale MR. CHURCHILL’S BELIEF (By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright.) (Received 24, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON. April 23. Mr. Winston Churchill closed his speech in the Budget debate with an eloquent peroration in which he described Europe as approaching' a climax. He believed that it would be reached within the lifetime of the present Parliament. Either the nations must join hands or there would be an explosion and catastrophe.

Ho expressed the opinion that a strong, armed Britain valiantly leading in the seeking for peace but ready to mu risks for it might conceivably turn the scale between blessing and cursing mankind.

Mr. Churchill flung his notes on his table and resumed his seat amid a burst of cheering.

Referring to the question of mandates in the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill, in the course of his earlier remarks, said it had been said that more could not be spent on rearmament under peace conditions lest the economic aud social life of the country were disturbed. Peace conditions were convenient if they gave the necessary deliveries of munitions; if not, they must substitute not necessarily war conditions but conditions which might impinge upon the ordinary daily life of the country. A Ministry ■ for the supply of munitions should have been established.