ALLIED POLICY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 5

ALLIED POLICY

FULL AGREEMENT LONDON PRESS VIEWS BLAME FOR OUTRAGE CONSENT BY HITLER (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12 noon RUGBY, Dec. 12. British newspapers, commenting on the proceedings at Geneva, while unanimously agreeing that Finland’s case is exactly one with which the League exists -to deal, say it must also be admitted that the conditions of the time could hardly be less favourable for the effective exercise of the League’s authority. The Daily Telegraph says: “Britain and France find themselves in full agreement on the line to be pursued and it is not surprising that the agreement extends as far as the wish that this meeting of the League should finish quickly, as it cannot be effectual.” , Recalling, with approval, the emphatic terms, in which M. Blum lias pointed out that, for the outrage against Finland Germany’s guilt is ai least as great as that of Russia, the Daily Telegraph says: “It was HenHitler who contrived M. Stalin’s crime against the liberty and independence of a small'and unoffending neighbour and it is by Herr Hitler’s consent and connivance that he pursues his fell purpose. “It may be hard saying, but it is true that in the present pass the situation will not be saved by moral indignation. The martyrdom of Finland is a grievous spectacle enough but what is now at stake is something even more hardly to be borne—the very martyrdom of man.”