SCHEME IN ENGLAND
"GIGANTIC PREPARATIONS"
(Received December 3, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, December 2
When Sir John Anderson, Minister of Civil Aviation, sat down in the House of Commons after making- his speech on the voluntary service scheme, Mr. George Lansbury (Labour) jumped' up and exclaimed: "Do all these gigantic preparations mean that the Government's view is that war is inevitable?"
Mr. Chamberlain replied sharply: "Certainly not."
The "News Chronicle" welcomes Sir John Anderson's voluntary service scheme and hopes that the agitation for compulsion will now be dropped. It declares that the scheme is good but must be accompanied by more inspired appeals than have yet been heard. "Let the Government show by deeds as well as words that it intends to uphold democracy at home and abroad," it adds. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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129SCHEME IN ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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