DEFENCE POLICY.
MR CHURCHILL’S SUPPORT. LONDON. May 19. After listening to an address by Mr "Winston Churchill, Cambridge undergraduates voted ten to one in support of the Military Training Bill. Mr Churchill urged the placing of national defence and foreign policy upon a ’plane above party and apart from political antagonists. He added that a Government which allowed Czechosholvakia to ho broken and disarmed was surprised and horrified that Herr Hitler had marched into Prague, subjugated the Czechs, and stolen all their belongings. The Government felt Hitler had deceived and defrauded them, even as did Mussolini. in whom tliev had confidently trusted. They had turned round over the week-end and adopted the very policy that their opponents had for long advocated. It contained the best hopes of peace, and if peace should he broken the best hopes of victory and the survival of the free nations. The Government had now made commitments on all sides which, if resolutely carried out, could ward off all dangers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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