PEACE TO WAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 11

PEACE TO WAR

TRANSITION IN BRITAIN “SMALL OFFENSIVES” UNITED EFFORT NEEDED BROADCAST BY MINISTER (Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.15 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 22. The Lord Privy Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare, broadcasting, spoke Of the difficulties experienced by the population during the transition period from peace to war He described the last three weeks as being “small offensives in war nerves, more difficult to meet than mass attacks.”

The transfer from peace to war is bound to cause dislocation especially in industry, and the Government was doing everything to mitigate the difficulties.

The initial war effort was an effort for the whole country, and although there was unemployment caused by the changed conditions “in such an effort there was no room for idle hands."

Gigantic programmes were being shaped and very soon almost every fit man and woman would be needed

Sir Samuel Hoare appealed to employers not to discharge workers; the trade of the country must go on. for Britain lived by trade, and he urged prudent buying by the public and selling by traders. The great body of traders, through their organisations, had told the Government that they strongly opposed profiteering, and the Government was taking the necessary powers to deal with a greedy minority.