HOUR TO STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 68, 21 March 1940, Page 5

HOUR TO STRIKE

CAUTION NECESSARY NO RASH ADVENTURES COMMENT ON PEACE MOVES LONDON, March 19. 1 •'The time and place lot us to strike must be decided on with the most expert advice we can command,” said Mr. Chamberlain in concluding u.c statement, with which he openea the House of Commons debate this afternoon. Mr. Chamberlain was answering those wnu/, he said, would urge a more vigorous policy and “wno say that by some unexplained imaginative .stroke of daring we ought, as they say, wrest to ourselves trie initiative. ’ "With the responsibility resting on the shoulders of the Government, we cannot be husJed into adventures which appear to us to present little chance of success, much danger and perhaps disaster,” he said. He had (previously referred to the visit by Mr. Sumner Welles and to the Hitler-Mus-solini meeting yesterday. He said ne was confident that Mr. Wehcs waz> able to get an accurate view of the sentiments of all sections of the community and see for himself the unity of purpose with whicn l;.e Britisn people were inspired. Dictators* Meeting. Of the dictators’ meeting, Mr. Cham | beriam observed: ".Some have tiioug. it was for the purpose of elaboiatm e J j new pe<we proposals, i do nut knew . whether that if. true or not. For auglu ! J 1 know those two gentlemen m.'gn: I nave spent their time discussing the ■ . conditions under whit., an Hanan ship . was destroyed by a German m.ne, wi.n 1 a loss of Italian lite.” I'hc.i, a . orier pause, ne declared with vigour. "Whatever may be the outcome v\e> are ready to meet it. vve are no*. , , likely to be diverted from the purpose . lor which we entered this war." The House greeted this declaration wit:, loud, prolonged cheers, whicn . were renewed wnen he went on to welcome President Roosevelt’s recent address on the moral basis of peace, and to add: "It is to attain just such an aim that we have taken up arms. We intend to fight until it has been ? secured.” f