“No Honest Man Trusts Ribbentrop’s Word”- Sir S. Hoare
LONDON, April 27. “We know this man. “He is a dangerous adventurer who has played a sinister part in public affairs,” said the Air Minister (Sir Samuel Hoare) in a radio broadcast today, when referring to the speech by Ribbentrop. “No honest man trusts his word,” Sir Samuel added. “No impartial neu* tral believes what'he says. “I need only say that it is a despicable lie to say that we have ever plotted against any neutral; country and that it is siek, lying hj'pocrisy when this charge; is made by the murderer of Czechoslovakia and Poland. Let me leave this man to his lies.” The Germans, Sir Samuel Hoare continued, had challenged Britain to fight on a new front, and had made Norway their battlefield. Britain had taken up the. challenge, and would-meet the Germans With ail the power she, could-stuhEhon-
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Northern Advocate, 29 April 1940, Page 5
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