PEACE FOR BRITAIN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2664, 1 September 1937, Page 8

PEACE FOR BRITAIN

OTHER POWERS’ ATTITUDE RUSSIA AND GERMANY. “Our only object is peace,” writes Dr. George Glasgow, Diplomatic Correspondent of the Observer. “That means peace with Germany. It can be only a peace of honour with safety, not a peace of effusion with concession. How is it to be achieved? How

can Britain help ? Certainly not. by accepting a commitment to fight against Germany, blindly and in. advance, for any and every imaginable cause or country in Europe. That in effect is what Moscow and Paris asked of us.. It is out of the question asked of us. It is out of the question. Britain will not fight for Russia against Germany nor for Germany against Russia. Nor for any other country in Europe. At all costs Britain must at once state what she will fight for. False hopes on the one side

and false fears on the other are the - r? very encouragement of war. There must be no ambiguity or vagueness. The commitment must be the minimum consistent with British defence. If we cannot thus circumscribe our liability without throwing over our existing commitments to France and Belgium, then even those commitments must be thrown over. It must be made clear to all concerned that Britain accepts no commitment for any Eastern contingency. Our hands must be untied.”