Lord Nuffield Says War Unlikely

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 8

Lord Nuffield Says War Unlikely

BRITISH ARMAMENT PREVENTIVE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 6. Lord Nuffield arrived by the Awatea on his sixth visit to the Dominion. His stay is one of only three days. He 13 going to Palmerston North tomorrow and then on to Napier, returning to Wellington via the Wairarapa and leaving by the Rangitiki on Thursday. Lord Nuffield said that his trip was in keeping with his policy of keeping in touch with conditions in the Dominions. In, regard to Britain, he said that she was busy rearming. The programme would not be cut off suddenly, but would slacken so that industrial production would gradually replace it. Britain was busier than any other country. Regarding the international situation, he did not think that there was going to be any war. Mr Neville Chamberlain’s idea was to prevent any further bloodshed. Britain wat rearming not to fight but to prevent fighting, and her rearmament was faster than r.nybody else’s. If he thought that there was going to be a war he would not be away out here. International affairs were evolving to a degree that a war was started, the rest of the world would be against the aggressor nation. Lord Nuffield thought that Mr Chamberlain was responsible for America’s present international attitude. The visitor made reference to Jewish refugees. Britain was taking a large proportion, and he thought that the Dominions would be better off if they took a fair number of the better class, who were nearly all people of high education and could teach us something. He had noticed some on his trip out and was surprised to find that they were such a desirable type.