STEADINESS AT ZERO HOUR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 October 1939, Page 7

STEADINESS AT ZERO HOUR

With a steadiness and self-eentrol never surpassed in the country’s history Britain was yesterday (Friday, September 1), making final preparations for the war that was being forced upon her by what the Prime Minister, in his speech to the House, rightly called the ‘ ‘ senseless ambitions” of the German Fuehrer, writes Mr, G. Ward Price, in the Daily Mail. There was not an anxious look ' nor a scared word among the men and women of the capital, and throughout the land the same cool, collected courage was everywhere displayed. Trusting and trusted, the British people left King, Cabinet and Commons to decree the measures necessary to deal with Germany’s sudden attack on Poland and went quietly about their daily tasks, nor all potenial enemies this nationaJ calm is ominous. It has already exploded the complacent belief of the Dictator States that a democratic country must necessarily be decadent and dis -j organised.