WAR SCARE DEPLORED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 9

WAR SCARE DEPLORED

EMPHATIC PEOTESTS

SIR JOHN SIMON BLAMED

i (Boceived October 30, 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. Ma or Oliver Stanley, addressing his constituents at Kendal, declared that a war panic' was unjustified. No Government anywhere had its attention, fixed on anything but the economic revival of its own country.

Sir Herbert Samuel (Labour), speaking at Halifax, denounced the light* hearted talk of another war. Ho said that Britons would not have it. They were determined as far as their power extends to stop it. "Now that is the lesson of East Fulham," he said. "Tha Disarmament Conference must, arrive at a convention reasonably offering Germany the fulfilment of the Versailles pledges." Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour) speaking at Bristol, characterised Sir John Simon as the worst Foreign Secretary for two hundred years, who had led Britain into repeated follies. The speaker added that Hitler would not have been so certain of his position, if Japan had been properly dealt witli last year. "It makes one almost physically vomit," he said, "to sco th» armament factories in Sheffield busier than they have been for years. Wo ought to warn the Governmeat that Labour would call a general strike rather than permit the breaking of anti-war pacts.