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| BRITAIN’S BULWARK Defence the Best Guarantee of Peace MR. BALDWIN’S AIM (British Official Wireless.) (Received 2, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 1. The Prime Minister spoke at the annual demonstration of the Primrose League in Albert Hall. Mr. Baldwin said that he believed the position of the Crown was more firmly embedded iu the hearts of tho people than it had ever been, being the greatest bulwark for democracy against despotism and tyranny from any quarter. The Government had begun to redeem the promise it made at the election to overhaul the national defences and equipment. The greatest peril in the world today came from the air, and it was in the air that the Government was making the greatest efforts to strengthen the defences. In his view strength in the air and knowledge of that strength abroad and of the defences prepared against air attacks were tho surest guarantees of peace. “My whole aim as Prime Minister is peace, not out of a spirit of cowardice but because I realise what war means for Europe,’’ said Mr. Baldwin. “I pledge myself and my Government to doing everything to procure and maintain peace, now an arduous and daily task.’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 2 May 1936, Page 5
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