DOMINIONS’ HELP APPRECIATED

Southland Times, Issue 23930, 23 September 1939, Page 6

DOMINIONS’ HELP APPRECIATED

Admiration Felt In Britain ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE ALLIES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, September 22. “I should like to emphasize again the admiration felt by the British Government and people of our partner nations in the British Commonwealth in the common endeavour to defeat German aggression,” says the Dominion Secretary (Mr R. A. Eden) in a . statement issued today. “Day by day we receive messages from overseas recording an ever-in-creasing determination and day by day comes news of action to implement their resolves. “This practical testimony from lands far distant from the actual scene of hostilities 'is a notable encouragement, not only to us, but to the allied nations and indeed to all who value the ideals of liberty and justice for which the British Commonwealth stands.” In the House of Lords, the Foreign Secretary (Viscount Halifax) said: “Our efforts are reinforced by the response of the Dominions. I am certain the great strength of Britain in every field is well organized to make its weight more felt.” . T , Viscount Maugham, a former Lord Chancellor, said that if Herr Hitler had the courage to tell the Germans of the determination of the Dominions and the action they had taken it would have a great effect on the determination of his coerced people to wage the war for the purpose of aggrandizing Herr Hitler himself. . The Dominions were not influenced by fear or hope of material advantage. There was no example in history so striking and moving as the action of the Dominions, unless it was Britain s own example in 1914. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chainberlain) s replying to a questioner, said he did not think it was immediately practicable to form an imperial war council. There were already close contacts between Britain and the Dominions and all the matters connected with the prosecution of the war and means for the fullest possible co-operation between the Governments were constantly under consideration.

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MR CHURCHILL’S VIEW OF NAZI-SOVIET PACT

NEW YORK, September 21. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Winston Churchill) has written an article for Colliers Magazme entitled “The Soviet-Nazi Pact: Grand Advantage to Mankind.” He says: The pact has stripped by a single _ stroke Russian Communism and Nazi AntCommunism of their wide theme, their credentials, their means of appealing to the mind and the spirit of men. Instead of two powerful and two certain types of mind-captivating philosophies we have a couple of sets of rival gangsters, joining forces, pooling their luck and trying to shoot their way out with any loot they can carry-through the G-men of civilization.” DR GOEBBELS DENIES IMPRISONMENT “VIOLATION OF FRONTIERS NOT CONTEMPLATED” BERLIN, September 21. The German Minister of Propaganda (Dr Josef Goebbels) came out of eclipse this morning when he summoned a meeting of foreign journalists at his Ministry. Dr Goebbels, in the course of a Press interview, said: “Foreign propagandists are responsible for the rumour that I am dead or imprisoned.” He. denied that Germany was contemplating violation of the Belgian and Dutch frontiers. , The German official news agency describes the British and French reports of a revolt in Bohemia and Moravia as unfounded and adds: “As reported at the time isolated arrests were made at the beginning of the war in order to ward off the machinations of the Benes clique.”