WAR NOT LIKELY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 7

WAR NOT LIKELY

LORD NUFFIELDS’ BELIEF

BRITISH POLICY PRAISED

SPEEDY REARMAMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Lord Nuffield arrived by the Awatea on his sixth visit to the Dominion. He will spend only three days, going to Palmerston North to-morrow and then on to Napier, and returning to Wellington via Wairarapa and leaving by the Rangitiki on Thursday. Lord Nuffield, said his trip is in keeping with his policy of keeping in touch with the conditions in the Dominions. In regard to Britain, he said that she was busy rearming. The programme would not be cut off suddenly, but would slacken so that industrial production would gradually replace it. Britain was busier than any other country. Regarding the international situation, he did not think there was going to be any war. The idea of the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain was to -prevent any further bloodshed. When people suggested that Mr Chamberlain was afraid, “We all are,’ he said. Britain was rearming not to fight, but to prevent fighting and her rearmament v/as faster than anybody else. If he thought there was going to be a war he would not be away out here. International affairs were evolving to a degree that if a war started, the rest of the world would be a nation. Lord Nuffield thought Mr. Chamberlain was responsible for America s present international attitude. Lord Nuffield made reference to the Jewish refugees. Britain was taking a large proportion and he .thought 11 Dominions would be better off if they took a fair number of the better class who were nearly all people of high education and could teach somethin He had noticed some on his trip out and was surprised to find they wei such a desirable type.