MORALLY AND TACTICALLY

Otaki Mail, 19 June 1939, Page 1

MORALLY AND TACTICALLY

■ ■*■ SEPTEMBER DECISION EIGHT j "Morally, it would have been wrong to have fought in September until Hitler was given his last chance toprove his statesmanship," writes Mr Beverlev Baxter, M.P., in the Sunday I Graphic. "Tactically, it would have been grossly ill-judged, for we see now that with the Czechs on one side and Russia on the other, Poland would have remained neutral and immobilised. Rus : ', sia, whom she feared and still fears. "Instead, Munich has proved a disaster for Hitler. The last chapter of it [was the raid on Prague and tho looting lof the banks. Now Hitler can look lion a resolute, determined Europe and -1 count the gains—and the cost, j "The alliance of Poland, France, and Britain is an alliance against the spirit - of Nazi Socialism, not against Gerj many. "It springs from the moral determination that the sawed-off machinegun shall not replace the scales of justice, that economic penetration shall ' not be a blind for military aggression, and that one nation's cry for a place in the sun shall not mean driving helpI less minorities into the shadows. I "We want war neither with Nazi I Socialism nor Germany —and I feel that Uhe terms are not necessarily synonymi ous. But we refuse to accept peace t with dishonour. i "Great Britain has spoken—for hert self, for Europe, for civilisation. Hitfa ler has found no words to reply." y ~