MUNICH PACT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 9

MUNICH PACT

NO CAPITULATION TO HITLER WORLD SAVED FROM CALAMITY EMPIRE’S NEW CHAPTER OF GREATNESS (C P A - fly Electric Telcgrapb-Cob.vricrHll (Received 26th November. 90 a.m.) LONDON. 25th November. It was untrue. declared Sir Samuel Hoare. Home Secretary, ad* dressing: the Cambridge University Conservative Association to-day, that Mr Chamberlain had capitulated to Heff Hitler because Britain's defence forces were too weak. Britain's rearmament, he said, had reached a stage at which the country would have been unshakeable in the early days of a war and irresistible as it progressed He admitted that Setbacks had occurred in the course of the European appeasement policy, and warned his hearers to expect disappointment The Munich agreement, he declared, had

saved the world from the greatest calamity in history, and Mr Chamberlain’s action was the most far-seeing which was then possible. “We should act similarly.' said the Minister, “if we were again facing the same situation. The Empire, far from drifting into a decline, is beginning a new chapter of greatness." A standard plan for air raid precaution trenches, continued Sir Samuel, was being issued by the Government to local authorities, who. if they adopted it. would receive a grant toward expenditure. He urged them to proceed with the work immediately, using unemployed labour. POSITION IN FRANCE MORE HELP FROM BRITAIN BIGGER EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN EVENT OF WAR (Received 26th November, 9.0 a m.) LONDON. 25th November. The “Duily Telegraph’s’ Paris correspondent says that M. Daladier. Prime Minister, is reported to have stressed during the Anglo-French talks, the necessity of creating at the earliest a larger British expeditionary force than the one that went to France in 1914. The French Cabinet is believed to be alarmed at the inadequacy of the British contingent which would be landed in France if var had broken out in September. M. Daladier emphasised that the disappearance of the Czech army for all practical purposes made Increased British effectives imperative. The Paris correspondent of “The i Times" says that the British and French Ministers discussed Germany s I colonial claims but that no decisions I W’ere taken The matter was felt to be one calling for prolonged study. PREMIER’S PLEA TO NATION ANXIOUS AND DIFFICULT TIMES j * British Official Wireless! RUGBY, ?4th November, j • n a letter to the Conservative can- j didate in the Fylde by-election, the ! Prime Minister. Mr Chan berlain says: The country Is passing through j anxious and difficult times which Call for courage and patience, two qualities in which the people have never be**n found lacking. “The road may be long and there may be obstacles in the path, but I believe that this country is sufficiently united and resolute, and it may yet lead the world to lasting peace “With that objeet we must be strong not only in defence, but in national purpose: and that strength can only come if the Government of this country can speak with the authority of a united people behind it ”