AIR PERILS.
POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
STATEMENT BY MR. BALDWIN. ARDUOUS & DAILY EFFORTS FOB PEACE. RUGBY, May 1. The Prime Minister spoke at the annual demonstration of the Primrose League in the Albert Hall today. Mr. Baldwin said he believed the position of the Crown was ore firmly embedded in the hearts ci' i: e people than it ever had been, be : z the greatest bulwark for democracy against despotism and tyranny from any quarter. The Government lad begun to redeem the promise it had made at the election to overhaul the national defences and equipment. The greatest peril of the world to-day came from the air, and it was in the air that the Government was making the greatest efforts to strengthen the defences. In his view strength in air and knowledge of that strength abroad and of the defences prepared against air attacks were the surest guarantees of peace.
“My whole .aim as Prime Minister,” he declared, “is peace—not out of a spirit of cowardice, but because I realise what war means for Europe. I Pledge myself that the Government is doing everything to procure and maintain. peace—now an arduous .and daily task.”—(British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1936, Page 5
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