ATTACK ON WAR TALK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 8

ATTACK ON WAR TALK

“NO DANGER FOR BRITAIN” HOPEFUL VIEW OF OVERSEA VISITORS [By Telegraph Press Association! WELLINGTON, 29th March. * “For Britain there is no danger of war,” said Colonel R. H. Goldthorp, of Halifax, who arrived in Wellington by the Aw'atea to-day. “We are picking no quarrels with anyone,” he added. “People on this side of the world seem far more jumpy than anywhere else. In Australia they certainly talk j a lot of rubbish about war. The papers seem to print anything alarming and give the dictators a lot of free advertisement. We ought to make a rule not to mention them for 10 years. If we didn't talk about them so much j they wouldn't get such grand ideas about themselves. The less we talk about war the less likely it is to come. The more we talk about it the more likely we are to create a situation leading to danger,” he said. A similar optimistic view was expressed by • Lieutenant-Colonel J. O'Sullivan, of London, another arrival by the Awatea. “The international situation is safer to-day than it has been for two or three years,” he said. “Since Mr Chamberlain came into power a spirit of realism seems to be gaining ground, j instead of a rather dangerous ideal-; ism.”