REAL SECURITY
Armed For Defence MR. CHURCHILL’S VIEWS [ British Official Wircleaa.) RUGBY, May 24. Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at Uhingford, expressed a hope for a peaceful solution of the present international crisis. It the present crisis passed and war was averted, as he believed it would be, that would be due to a rudimentary and emergency form of collective security, but. he continued, that unless we could gain other Powers to th? side of peace disaster might occur in future. It would be far better, he contended, to have firm arrangements with a large body of well-armed nations, all obliged to defend one another against an aggressor, than to efrift from one crisis to another. This would be real active security and no; a sham. In asking the country to support the Covenant he denied that it was an encirclement of Germany. It was, he said, an encirclement only of an aggressor. They asked no security for themselves that they were not prepared freely yet to extend to Germany. Even if Germany did not rejoin the League, he saw no reason why assurances of a most decisive character should not be offered by France and Britain to help Germany in every possible way if she were a victim of an outrage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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211REAL SECURITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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