SUPPORT FOR DECISION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21449, 13 September 1939, Page 8

SUPPORT FOR DECISION

British Official Wireless (Received September 12, 11.10 p.m.) RUGBY, September 11. The “Financial News” in a leading article says: “Nothing could be wiser or nothing could be better calculated to put the national war effort into its true perspective from the start than the War Cabinet’s decision to base all plans on the assumption that the war will last for some years. That is procedure, not a prophecy. The Government is concerned not to lay down a time schedule for victory, but to assure the right intensity and continuity of national effort.” The “Daily Herald” in an editorial, after analysing the reappearance in Field-Marshal Goering’s speech of the old Nazi technique of isolating the victim by lulling some of his possible defenders into a false security and keeping others quiet by intimidation—the technique by which it said Nazi aggression demolished the first of its opponents inside Germany and next the free nations on Germany’s borders —declared: “There will be no more successes to add to that long score. Poland. France, Britain and the rest of the British Commonwealth are part of a union from which no member can be isolated and destroyed. They stand as one until the end, united by an

idealism in the light of which they see the attack upon Poland as an attack upon all free civilisation, united also by the certain knowledge that there is no limit to Herr Hitler’s ambitions beyond which any one of them might be sure of its individual security.”