CALM WORDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 7

CALM WORDS

BRITISH PEOPLE CHAMBERLAIN SPEECH STAMP OF LEADER REACTION OF PRESS LONDON—NEW YORK (Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 27. : The Daily Telegraph describes the i broadcast speech made on Sunday by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, as the most important speech

of the war. The Daily Mail says that Mr. Chamberlain’s calm words reflect the iron will of the British people. The Daily Express says the speech stamps Mr. Chamberlain as a real leader of a people at war. i Special prominence is'given to Mr. Chamberlain's statement of war and | peace aims. The News-Chronicle, which, among other newspapers, has called for more precise statement on the sort of Europe, to be created when the war

is won, enthusiastically welcomes the speech declaring that the aims could hardly have been stated in more specific form. Broad Principles The Daily Telegraph comments: “This definition of peace as a matter for settlement by a world congress ol nations, goes far beyond any i'ormei declaration of the Allies. Mr. Cham-

berlain stated broad principles. Economic nationalism must give way to the flow of trade. “The internal government of a State will be no concern of any other, but the external policy must be peaceful. : Then may come gradual disarmament, ft will take long to establish such conditions. We have to end the Hitler reign of terror before the foundation of a new Europe can be laid. But the cause is great and will prevail.” Messages from New York state that the responsible American press features the text of Mr. Chamberlain’s speech.

Full-Scale Reorganisation An editorial in the New York Herald-Tribune states that Mr. Chamberlain has dropped the notion of a mere patching up aud a new balance of power and is thinking in terms ol full-scale reorganisation in Europe. “Practical statesmanship will be incapable of translating such a broad objective into a settlement unless there is wide agreement among belligerents and neutrals, including America, which will profoundly influence its success,” continues the HeraldTribune. “Yet the discussion of a concrete settlement is impossible until the terms of the war's end are known. A victory for Hitler would render the question academic. “The Allies’ use of their victory will depend upon whether it is won after an exhausting war with Germany prostrate or whether Germany is strong and under m&re responsible and less bellicose hands. “While statesmanship is compelled to wait practical possibilities, opinion must be hammering the broad basis on which statesmen may prevail.’’