No Grounds For Doubt

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1939, Page 5

No Grounds For Doubt

After making his broadcast speech, the Prime Minister drove down Whitehall to the Houses of Parliament, ami made, a statement immediately to the House at noon, Mr. •Chamberlain said : “ When I spoke last night in the House, I could not but be aware that in some parts of the House there was doubt, or, some bewilderment, as to whether there had been any hesitation pn the part of His Majesty’s Government,

“But I make no reproaches, for if I had been sitting on that side of the House, and not in possession of all the facts, very likely I would have felt the same. .

‘.‘The statement T have to make this morning will show there were no grounds for doubt. “We were in close consultation yesterday with the French Government, and we felt that the intensified action which the Germans were taking in Poland allowed of no delay in making our position clear. “’Accordingly, we decided to send our Ambassador in Berlin, instructions which he was to hand at 9 o’clock this morning to the Gorman Foreign (Secretary, ‘ ‘'These instructions were, included in the communique which X read earlier.

“That was a final Note. No such undertaking was received by the time stipulated. The country is now at war. ‘ ‘According to arrangements between the British and French Governments, the French Ambassador in Berlin is at this moment making a similar demarche.