WAR TALK DENOUNCED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 9

WAR TALK DENOUNCED

QUITE UNJUSTIFIED SIR. HERBERT SAMUEL’S VIEWS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 29. _ Major Oliver Stanley, addressing his constituents at Kendal, declared that war panic was unjustified. No Government anywhere had its attention fixed on anything but its economic revival. Sir Herbert Samuel, speaking at Halifax, denounced the light-hearted talk of another war. He said that Britons would not have it. They were determined so far as their power extended to stop it now —that was the lesson of the East Fulham by-election. The Disarmament Conference must arrive at a convention reasonably offering Germany fulfilment of the Versailles pledges. Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour M.P.), speaking at Bristol, characterised Sir John Simon as the worst Foreign Secretary in 200 years. He said he had led Britain into repeated follies. He added that Herr Hitler would not be so certain of his position if Japan had been properly dealt with last year. “It makes one almost physically vomit,” he said, “to see the armament factories at Sheffield busier than they have been for years. We ought to warn the Government that Labour would call a general strike rather than permit the breaking of anti-war pacts.”

BRITAIN’S EFFORTS FOR PEACE,

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, October 29.(Received Oct. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) In a message addressed to the Conservative candidate at the by-election which is proceeding in the Skipton Division of Yorkshire, Mr Stanley Baldwin reiterates the Government’s deep interest in the cause of disarmament. He says: “The whole country, irrespective of party, is solidly united in favour of peace and disarmament by international agreement. The British Government has been striving to achieve it and there never was a time when it was more necessary for the people to give the Government their support on this issue.”