BRITAIN’S PERIL
WARNING BY A PEER “Britain is the maddest country in the Occident,” declared Viscount Lymington, addressing a farmers’ club in England. “Our leaders would be liable to imprisonment in a saner age," he said. “The British Empire is the greatest block undefended from plunder in a land-hungry world. “Complacency cannot gloss over our I dependence on imported foodstuffs, j The appalling effects of the average > Englishman’s diet are demonstrated in j the appall.ng number of rejects for ' the Army. The talk of the Minister | for War (Lord Hailsham) of plans to : expand agriculture in case of war Is , the greatest moonshine ever put over I urban populations, who have forgot- , ten all reality.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 8
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115BRITAIN’S PERIL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 8
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