PLAN FOR PEACE
DEALING WITH AGGRESSORS COMBINATION OF NATIONS MR CHURCHILL’S VIEWS ißritieb Official Wireleaa] (Received 25th May, 10.28 a.m.) RUGBY, 24th May. Mr Winston Churchill, Conservative M.P.. speaking at Chingford. expressed the hope for a peaceful solution of the present international crisis. If the present crisis passed and war was averted, as he believed it would be, that would be due to a rudimentary and emergency form of collective security, but he continued that unless we could gain other powers to the side of peace, disaster might occur in the future. It would be far better, he contended, to have firm arrangements with a large body of well-armed nations all obliged to defend one another against an aggressor, than to drift from one crisis to another. This would be real, active security and not the sham of asking a country to support the Government. He denied it was an encirclement of Germany. It was, he said, encirclement only of an aggressor. They asked no security for themselves that they were not prepared freely to extend to Germany. Even if Germany did not rejoin the League he saw no reason why assurances of a most decisive character should not be offered by France and Britain to help Germany in every possible way if she were the victim of an outrage.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 25 May 1938, Page 5
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220PLAN FOR PEACE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 25 May 1938, Page 5
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