IMPROVING TREND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 6

IMPROVING TREND

ALLIED POSITION j GAIN WEEK BY WEEK j THREE MONTHS OF WAR j CHANCELLOR’S REVIEW 1 GERMAN COMPARISON | (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; I (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 29. j The Chancellor of the Exchequer, j Sir John Simon, speaking l at a lunch- j eon in London to-day, said that the j war had not developed in the way : originally expected with a great battle on the Western Front and aerial j attacks on London. None the less the three months hao provided material from which to make deductions and form judgments as to the Ultimate prospects. It could not be doubted that the German strategy had been beset with divided counsels. If Herr Hitler had relied on Herr von Ribbentron for expert advice about the British people the German Chancellor must have had a shattering awakening. In the meantime, Sir John Simon claimed that the position of the Allies was improving week by week. The numbers of the British Expeditionary Force in France were growing and would rapidly grow. The British Navy had resumed its immortal role of holding the seas and protecting British commerce.

As to the air there was a conviction steadily growing that British pilots and machines were more than a match for those opposed to them.

Sir John concluded by a reference to the quiet sense of determination and resolve marking British men and women to-day. There was no boasting. There was no frantic demonstration, but there was a deep, pervading sense that victory had got to-be secured, else life was not worth living.