“Better Not Try To Provoke Britain" Sir Thomas Inskip Says

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1938, Page 5

“Better Not Try To Provoke Britain" Sir Thomas Inskip Says

[British Official Wireless. j (Received 2.3 G p.m.) RUGBY, June 13. 'THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WILL TOMORROW CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF THE BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS IN SPANISH WATERS, WHICH WILL BE RAISED BY A PRIVATE NOTICE QUESTION FROM THE LABOUR LEADER, ?TR C. R. AITLEE. The press generally expects the debate to be heated, for '.he bombing has continued incessantly since before the House of Commons adjourned for the Whitsun recess. The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, speaking •at Hatfield, referred to the a.tack on Eriash ships in Spain. He said that there was not very much that he thought it right to say. for the reason that the matter was in the capable hands of the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax.

0 A Biting Comparison. “Any fool can make trouble out of •he situation,” he said, “but it requires great qualities, of which we have not been disappointed, to preserve our 1 rights without, I hope, any interferf ence or the alteration of the policy, which we have deliberately adopted, of non-intervention in Spain. “You know it is difficult to provoke the British nation,” he went on. “All I can say is that anybody who is inclined to try had bdtter not.”