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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21573, 8 February 1940, Page 6

“I must acknowledge that many mistakes were made during the course of the years since the war,” said Mr R. A. Butler, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in a frank statement winding up a recent debate in the House of Commons. “If I were to sum up what we should aim at, I should say that in future British policy should aim at reconciling our obligations with the strength with which it is in our power to carry out those obligations. I believe that if we learn that lesson we can then study any scheme for an ideal future such as federal union or any other scheme, and try to work out what may be after the war the ideal system of international relations.”

“Big, bullying Finland has a population of 3,0(17,000. Poor little Russia has a population of only 170,120,000. The Finnish regular array is no fewer than 30,000, with 300,000 reservists. The Red Army is given at little more than 2,000,000, with a pitiful handful of 9,000,000 trained reserves,” states the Star, London. “These figures alone show how dire is Russia’s peril. A cornered nation, however, fights hard in defence of its existence, and we have no doubt that, if put to the test, Russia will acquit herself as nobly as that other little nation, Germany, when threatened by the wicked Czechs and Poles.”

There may be numbers of older people in Germany who are alarmed nt the situation Hitler has landed them in, but many millions of the young men have enthusiastically approved the rape of Austria and Czechoslovakia and Poland and the bestialities of the concentration camps—l''ic/d-Jlur*7iuf Sir Philip Chctwode.