PEACE TO WAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8

PEACE TO WAR

BRITAIN’S RESPONSE

BIG PLANS AHEAD.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 22. The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Samuel Hoare), in a broadcast, spoke of the difficulties experienced by the population during the transition period irom peace to war. He described the last three weeks as being “small offensives in war nerves, more difficult to meet than mass attacks.” The transfer from peace to war was bound to cause dislocation, especially in industry, and the Government was doing everything to mitigate the difficulties. Tlie initial war effort was an effort bv the whole country, and, although there was unemployment caused by the changed conditions, “in such an effort there was no room tor idle hands.” . Gigantic programmes were shaping, and very soon almost every ht man and woman would be needed. Sir Samuel Hoare appealed to employers not to discharge workers the trade of the country must go on, tor Britain lives by trade—and he urged prudent buying by the public and fair selling bv traders. ihe great body of traders through their organisations had told the Government that they were strongly opposed to profiteering, and the Government was taking the necessary powers to deal with the greedy minority.