LABOUR “BLOWHARDS”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23734, 15 February 1939, Page 18

LABOUR “BLOWHARDS ”

Yet another important element in +he unnatural combination against the British Government’s foreign policy is the intellectual cowardice which has refused persistently to face the plain alternatives of neace and war. writes “ Scrutator,” in the Sunday Times. War is an ugly word. The argument of the Labour Opposition, therefore, is that there will be no war if only we shout loud enough: that if the Germans wore convinced that we were in earnest they would give way at once; that there is some inherent weakness in the Prime Minister’s character which encourages the Germans and Italians to expect us to pay Danegeld in vital British interests. How different we are left to suppose would things be if Mr Attlee were in charge! He would only need to blow hard and the dictators would fly for shelter. It is a travesty of reality. Mr Chamberlain is. in fact, the most resolute man in British politics, but he never bluffs, and if there is one thing more dangerous and morally worse than a deliberate war policy it is a war policy which pretends that there is no risk of war.