TO COMPLETE TASK

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 7

TO COMPLETE TASK

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

CALL FOR CONFIDENCE

CHANCELLOR CHEERFUL!

OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK

(British Official Wireless.) "^ (Received March 27, 10 a.m.)' 1 RUGBY, March 25.

An optimistic view of the outlook was taken by the Chancellor of tha Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham last night when he appealed for confidence in the National Government to enable it to complete its task. "Our credit system has been so fully restored," he said, "that today wa are almost embarrassed by - the amount of money that is coming into London from other countries brought there by people who feel that thi3 is a safer place than that from which it came. From having slipped back to a position of third exporting country of the world we have once mora regained our position as first exporting country." •

Over 200, new factories, he continued, had been established here with foreig* capital. The Government had had invitations from something like twenty foreign countries to begin negotiations with them for new commercial treaties. Agriculture was being reorganised from top to bottom. Farmers at present had greater hopes and greater confidence in the future than they had had for | many years. . ■ I Referring to the difficult and delicate problem of instituting a new system of Government in India he said that the Government did not under-estiniate the risks, but with patience, goodwill, prudence, 'and courage they might be encouraged to believe they would presently see the end of that momentous problem.

A great and beneficient change had in the past week come over the situation in Europe as the result of British initiative, and the visit to Geneva and' Home of the Prime Minister. The interest of this country is now, as it always has been, in the preservation of peace, but it is not enough for us to say we. ourselves do not intend to go to war. Our interests lie deeper than that. It is our duty, by every effort we can make, by every influence we can exert, to compose differences and to act as mediators to try to devisa methods by which other countries may be delivered from the great, nienac* of war. •