FIXING NAZI YOKE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 7

FIXING NAZI YOKE

INVADED LANDS POLICY OF HITLER (British Official Wircloss.) Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Nov. IC. Speaking in the House of Commons on Sir John Simon's war review, the Leader of the Opposition, Major C. 11. Attlee, said that all members regretted that the peace efforts of the two monarchs of the low countries had been so summarily rejected by Germany and they joined in the hope that those peaceful peoples would not be drawn into the war.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, for the Liberal Party, said that Britain had delivered to the Dutch and Belgian initiative a reply which seemed to him and his Liberal friends to be admirable.

“No one dares to suggest that an aggressor should be left with the spoils of aggression or that we should make peace before the countries which have been the victims of Nazi aggression are liberated,” lie said. “Some people suggested that if only we would negotiate now with Herr Hitler we could achieve that purpose without going on with the war.

“Britain and France have answered that. They do not want to continue the war a day longer than is necessary to achieve their object. They have welcomed. Queen Wilhelmina’s initiative. Herr Hitler refused even to answer the Queen’s original letter. It is now abundantly clear to the whole world that Herr Hitler is continuing this war for no other reason than to fasten the Nazi yoke firmly on the Czechs and the Poles, and the sole responsibility for refusing the negotiations rests on him.”