DANGER OF WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22627, 15 January 1937, Page 9

DANGER OF WAR

LOBD MILNE'S VIEW. GERMANY AND THE EMPIRE FORMER DIPLOMAT'S WARNING By Telegraph—Press Ansociatior.—Copyright (Received January 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 13 "Your country is in danger. Some people say we have five years in which to prepare, but I vould feel that I was an optimist if I said five months from to-night," said Lord Milne at a dinner for the encouragement of the cadet movement. Another outspoken warning was uttered by Sir Malcolm .ilobertson, in a speech at Leeds. He said: "The ultimate aim of Nasi Germany is to split the British Empire. ,lt is m.v firm conviction that Germany will not be content until she achieves that objective. She is only repeating her Moroccan tactics of pre-war days. "If Germany desires peace why is she pulling in her belt to buy rawmaterials for war? The only hope of peace is Britain arming quickly enough to insist upon the observf.nce of the Covenant of the League of Nations." 1 — Field-Marshal Lord Milne, formerly Sir George Francis Milne, was created a baron in 1933 and since that year he has been Governor and- Constable of the Tower of London. He was born in 1866 and entered the Army at the age of 19. He in the Sudan in 1898

anrl in the Boer War. In the Great War he commanded the s!7th Division and Sixth Army Corps. I:n 1926-33 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Sir Malcolm Roberteon was born in 1877 and became a clerk in the Foreign Office in 1898. He rose rapidly in the Diplomatic Service and was stationed at Berlin, Peking, Madrid and later at Washington, and The Hague. He was Ambassador at Tangier from 1921 to 1925 and at Buenos Aires from 1927 to 1929.. He retired in the following year. After the Great War he was British representative on the InterAllied Rhineland High Commit*.on.

BRITISH LABOUR POLICY IN EMERGENCY DEFENCE OF THE PEACE Addressing the London Commercial Club a few weeks ago, Mr. Arthur Greenwood, deputy-leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, stated that Britain would stand united in the face of any assault on the peace. Labour was prepared, "without qualification, to provide this country with all the arms which are necessary for it to fulfil its undertakings given to other nations to preserve the peace of the world. There is no doubt about that. There is no doubt in the minds c>f 99 per cent df our people on that question. That is the way."

Mr. Greenwood said that, nobody but a fool wanted war. He and his party were satisfied that there was 110 hope for the peace of the world except through some international organisation such as the League of Nations.

"I do not mind hard words in politics," ho continued. "Whenever the German Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics bark at one another over the garden wall, I think peace is safe. I do not believe that that is the wav Avars arc made.

"When people talk loud and vert their feelings they are blowing off steam instead of blowing off guns. But the very fact of the massed possession of arms drives a nation sooner or later, often enough accidentally, to use them, and the sooner we deprive people of the danger of using them the better.

"We have to take ths line that in the modern world aggreiision must be punished. The one way in my view and 111 the view of my party to keep the peace is for nations under the League to stand together, all or part of them, and say, 'We will pool our military resources to defend tlie peace of the world against the law breaker.' " No foreign nation should think, he said, that if peace were . assailed by aggression, this country was going to bo split from top to bottom, because it would not be.

GAS MASK FACTORY

OPENING IN tIRITAIN PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS British Wireless KUGBY, Jan. 13 Speaking at Blackburn at the opening of the first factory for the assembly of gas-masks for the civilian population, the Under-Secretary to the Home Office, Mr. G. W. Lloyd, said the masks would stop every poison gas known to the Government which could bo used in war. If ever the masks were needed they would bo issued free of charge to everyone in danger. ■