COMPLETE ACCORD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 5

COMPLETE ACCORD

BRITAIN—FRANCE POLICY IN WAR ONLY POSSIBLE RESORT ENDING OF PERIL EFFORTS FOR SOLUTION (Floe. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless) Reed. 11.30 a.m. Dec. 22. The perfect parallelism existing during the past 18 months between the French and British policy, which is shown in papers collected in a French Yellow Book on the immediate origins of the war, is regarded by the press as the most striking feature of the publication. “Its effect,” says the Daily Telegraph, "is to deepen the sinister impression which the now-familiar facts have left on all but the Nazi mind. Self-Preservation “Britain and France, had and still have, as this Yellow Book shows, only one possible resort for selfpreservation as W'ell as for honour—to confront and end the imminent peril. “Before they were driven to that conclusion the Allies exhausted every effort to reach a peaceful solution which would not be a mere postponement of the clash and a betrayal of the tranquility and liberty of Europe. When they attempted to reach reasonable accommodation, they were cheated and then flouted. “The desire for conciliation was affected only as a cloak to the fulfilment of ulterior designs and not at all as a token of their abandonment and the cloak was thrown off as soon as its deceptive purposes had been served. Fieri - Hitler was resolved on war.”