LABOUR AND ARMAMENTS
“MUST MAKE WOULD-BE AGGRESSORS THINK TWICE" Dr Hugh Dalton, chairman of the British Labour Party, speaking at Leeds, said:—“lf Labour were in power I am not going to say that we should be in favour of scrapping arms and armaments. We should need to be strong enough to make any wouldbe aggressors think twice. The German armaments to-day are causing every democracy on the Continent of Europe to tremble. Fear of Hitler’s intentions was everywhere; even the Swiss for the first time are fortifying their German frontier. We blind ourselves to reality.” he continued, “unless we face this fact, that this enormous war machine, with an enormous air licet which could destroy our great cities in a night, is not guided by pacifists. If this country were completely without arms Hitler would do to us what he has done to Socialist, Communist and Jew. Italy, encouraged by being allowed to take Abyssinia, is inclined to move alongside Germany to form a great Fascist United Front against the rest of Europe. The only hope for the future is a strong League of Nations.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 March 1937, Page 2
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