PREVENTION OF WAR
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(British Official Wireless.)
Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, March 4. Asked in the House of Commons today in regard to air defence, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, said i hat methods of combating air attacks were continuously being studied and developed, and valuable progress had been made. It would not be in the public interest to disclose 'the lines on which the work was proceeding. Referring at a public, meeting today to tlie Government ’s new defence scheme, the Air Minister, Viscount Swindon, declared that the defence policy, like the foreign policy, did not merely mean defence of vital interests, important as they were. It meant something more than that, for it wtts .an insurance against- war. They would only prevent war if the forces of peace were strong enough to make war not worth while. The only way for Britain to get disarmament was for her to bo strong enough and for other countries to know it. The world knew that. Britain would neve)' use her power for aggression.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18956, 5 March 1936, Page 6
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