GERMAN REARMAMENT

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 7

GERMAN REARMAMENT

World’s Greatest Anxiety MR CHURCHILL’S VIEW ETHIOPIAN WAR SMALL IN comparison [British Official Wireless.l (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October' 24. rpHE third day in the House of Commons debate on the international situation opened with a speech by Mr Winston Churchill, who began by referring to the progress of German rearmament. Whatever they thought the reason or object of that movement he submitted that they could not ' have any other anxiety comparable to the anxiety it had caused. Compared with that, he regarded the war between Italy and Abyssinia as a very small matter. It was on the basis of German rearmament that the dispute between Italy and the League must, be considered, and, in all circumstances, he thought the effort which France had made to. give effect to the League Covenant deserved warm recognition. He expressed sympathy with the Abyssinians in the invasion of their country, but said now they appealed to the League they must be made to put their house in order, so that the League could not be accused of taking a one-sided action against Italy. A great new fact in the international situation, Mr Churchill declared, was that the League of Nations was alive and in action. They were in the presence of a memorable event—the assertion of public law by 50 nations, and its recognition by the State affected and the historic figure at the head -of that State. ' “From Shadow to Substance.” “The League cf Nations has passed from shadow into substance, from rhetoric into reality. The - structure, always majestic but hitherto shadowy, is being clothed with power. They be-' gan to feel the beating of the. pulse, which might, some day, give a greater feeling of strength and security to the whole world.” In a striking passage Mr Churchill asked the House hot to suppose that the measures being taken against Italy were not the most formidable. They must not look only a month or two ahead. Where would the Italian dictator be this time next year? He might be far into Abyssinia, with ah'army of a quarter of a million men, wasting rapidly by guerilla warfare and disease, and all the time Italy, 1 under the boycott of the censure, practically of the wholei world, Would be bleeding at every pore, her gold reserve melting away, her prices rising and her credit . gone. Mr Arthur Greenwood (Labour) charged- the Government with, using the international crisis to divert the failure of its unemployment policy. The debate is continuing.