ANOTHER CRISIS?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23703, 10 January 1939, Page 9

ANOTHER CRISIS?

MR CHAMBERLAIN IN ROME LIMIT OF CONCESSIONS REACHED DANGER OF DICTATORSHIPS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON. Jan. 9. Lord Strabolgi arrived to-day on business connected with the Centennial Exhibition. He said that Germany and Italy were not in an economically safe enough position to go to war. but the best people of Germany would wel*. come war solely for the purpose of getting rid of the Hitler regime. France and Great Britain were tired of concessions, and he thought Mr Chamberlain knew he could not get away with further concessions on his visit to Rome.

“ There may be another crisis.” he said, “ and it may come upon us within a few days as a result of the visit to Home. It is the policy of the dictators of Europe to keep up a general state of unrest and uncertainty. They create a ‘ nuisance ’ value, demanding concessions as the price of peace. “If war had come in September my calculation is that it would have lasted just three weeks, and then the army would have taken control in Germany and made peace. The danger, of course, is that the dictators, German or Italian, will decide on wars as a last desperate throw, either because of growing economic difficulties or growing dissension.” • . ■ . .. ~ If the Fascists won in Spam it would make the strategic position very serious from a naval viewpoint. The only thing that beat the Republicans and loyalists was starvation, and, thank heaven, the Americans were sending food. He wished other democracies had done that. It was the only way. The intervention of Italy and Germany in Spain was a scandal crying aloud to heaven.

Lord Strabolgi is managing director of Tubular Steel Constructions. Ltd., the concessionary company, which is to build and conduct the playland at the Centennial Exhibition. Formerly Lieutenant-commander J. M. Kenworthy, he was created a Labour peer in 1934. During the Great War he was commander of H.M.S. Bullfinch and later of H.M.S. Commonwealth. He was on the Admiralty War Staff in 1917, and was Assistant Chief of Staff at Gibraltar in 1918. retiring in 1920. He represented Central Hull in the House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1919 to 1926, and as a Labour member 1 from ,1926 to 1931 Lord Strabolgi was president of the United King dom Pilots’ Association ; from 1922 to 1925, chairman of the British branch of the Inter-parliamentary Union from 1929 to 1932, and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Sea Fisheries from 1926 to 1932.