CRITICAL DAYS

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 20889, 22 August 1939, Page 5

CRITICAL DAYS

BRITAIN’S DETERMINATION WILL KEEP PLEDGE TO POLAND (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright! LONDON, August 21 “Mr Chamberlain’s return to London a day earlier than was intended is one of many signs that heightened tension and critical days lie ahead,” says the Times in a leading article. “Britain, France and like-minded nations. are determined that the German fulminations —but with the Poles as the criminals instead of the Czechs —shall not achieve their purpose. “Britain’s temper nowadays is very different from that of last autumn. The machinery of Herr Hitler’s technique has become visible. There can be no settlement until these methods are discarded. If the outcome is war. it will be because other countries find Herr Hitlers Germany an impossible neighbour. “Britain has given Polan I n pledge from which she will not and cannot recede. She gave no such pledges to Czecho-Slovakia, whose encirclement before her destruction is paralleled by Germany's bringing of Slovakia under her control in order to pursue the eneiclernent of Poland. If Germany cannot live with her * neighbours except by subjugation, then they must unite against her, witn BnUio by :he*r side.'’