A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
" Herr" Hitler has made the policy of Britain and France olear. Both Mr Eden and M. Blum have held their hands out to Germany. Herr Hitler bftS grasped neither. He is fully entitled to take his course, but his course sets other courses, too. If there is any ground for the belief that Germany will make war if she thinks it safe, she must never be allowed to think it safe. No nation in Europe dreams of aggression against her. The much-vilified Franco-Soviet Pacl ineans nothing unless France or Russia is attacked. But if Germany should attack, she wpuld haye to reckon with the mobilisation of oyeywhelming force against her — and she could place no reliance on Italy, for Italy would never risk action against tfie British and French fleefcs in the Mediterranean. In those faets lies for the moment the hest security of peace. It is a humiliation to Europe that peace should have to rest on such a basis, but at least the breathing-space can he used tljq aearch Thr Spectator (London)^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 4
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177A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 4
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