ARMAMENTS & PEACE.
MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S SURVEY. UNILATERAL REDUCTION A, FAILURE. BRITISH LEAD NOT FOLLOWED I . (Received Wednesday, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. “Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the known weaknesses of our defences have seriously impaired our influence for peace,/’ declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a bankers’ dinner. He said “ the unilateral disarmament which had been practised by Britain since the war was not decided on by the present Government. It was the deliberate act of successive Governments, representing different parties in the State. The decision, he added was probably, the best in the circumstances then existing, but conditions had. changed. Other countries, instead of following the British example, had been increasing their armaments, and with the consciousness of increased power had come a disinclination to listen to counsels of moderation. If Britain was to pull her weight in the cause of peace, they must be given the means without which that end could not be served.
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Wairarapa Age, 3 October 1935, Page 5
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