NO DANGER OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 10

NO DANGER OF WAR

NOT FOR SEVERAL*YEARS

SIR PHILIP GIBBS'S VIEW

EUEOPE NOT YET EEADY

United Press Association—By • Electric TeU'

Eraph—Copyright. (Received October 31, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 30,

In a North American Newspaper Alliance copyright message Sir Philip Gibbs says: —"I am convinced there is no danger of war in Europe for several years, but this is not good enough to convey a sense of security. We are advancing steadily towards* war. Secret alliances for a new balance of power are being arranged, espionage is resumed, armament makers are busy, naval estimates are being revised, and the censorship is tightening. The Junker mind within and without Germany, voicing the ideals of blood and iron, is beating the jungle tomtoms. Playing for time before the struggle Japan and Russia eye each other sullenly. All hopes in the League of Nations are failing owing to the revival of faith in force.

'' Possibly when the commanders issue recruiting papers there will not be the same rally of youth as in 1914. Civil war may accompany the declaration of, international war. There is a strong youthful pacifist movement in all the social strata of England. The French general's view that if war. with Germany is inevitable now is the; time to strike is not shared by Badicals and Socialists nor by youth remembering 1914. French opinion was swinging towards a more liberal attitude towards Germany until-Nazi brutality created a recoil." . ,-