A SANE PEACE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 3

A SANE PEACE

NOT A PREMATURE ARMISTICE “I am afraid it is true that the moli in Berlin and other German cities thoroughly enjoyed the poggroms against the Jews last November,” writes Lord Strabolgi, the Leader of the Labour Party in the Houes of Lords, in “Forward.” “There are plenty of decent Germans, however, and I myself have talked with many German patriots who have described to me their loathing and disgust at what is be ing done in their country by the Nazi gangsters, and how helpless they are until Hitlerism is faced with defeat. For the sake of those decent Germans it is necessary that the legend of Prussian invincibility should be destroyed. Enough Germans have supported tile regime to make possible the wars of 1864, 1866, 1870, 1914, and 1939. A premature armistice conference and a superMunich now would only strengthen his legend. I am afraid, therefore, we must fight it out, cost what it will. And I am one of those who, with the majority of the Labour Party in Parliament, prefer that we should fight rather than submit td Gestapo rule in this country or its imposition on any other countries, including Germany.