EMERGENCY POWER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 25 August 1939, Page 6

EMERGENCY POWER

ROYAL ASSENT

WESTMINSTER MEASURE

PARLIAMENT ADJOURNED

FURTHER LEADERS’ VIEWS

LABOUR AND LIBERAL

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 25, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24. In the House oC Commons the resolution empowering the Government to pass all stages of the Emergency Powers Bill on the same day was carried by 457 votes to 4. The Emergency Powers Bill received Royal assent. Both Houses of Parliament adjourned until August 31. The Prime Minister. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, requested members to remain in readiness,for a further call at the shortest notice, which is considered most likely.

Following Mr. Chamberlain’s speech Mr. A. Greenwood, representing the Labour Parly, said it was hoped that all clouds might yet be dispelled. The unity of resistance to aggression was complete and the issue was being faced with confidence. "I still hope there may be influences in Germany becoming powerful enough to respond to the appeal for reason and realise that if there are legitimate grievances they are not incapable of settlement,” said Mr. Greenwood. ‘‘Britain would not march with an aggressor and a lawbreaker. Labour would never to further aggression. The peril of war has not come from us. Not Hostile to German People “We are not hostile to the German people, for whom war would be equally disastrous. Victor and vanquished alike would be crushed in ruins.” The Liberal leader. Sir Archibald Sinclair, said it was not the time for controversy and recrimination when a thrust for world domination was threatening British homes and families and depriving them of the light and blessing of peace. It was a time for a closing of the ranks. The former Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said that the situation was as grave and as perilous as any in Britain’s history. "The chief danger is Germany’s refusal to believe we are in earnest,” he said. If the German people did not believe that Britain and France would support Poland, it would be the gravest error in history.