HARD WORDS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 4

HARD WORDS.

" There is one disturbing element, one disturbing f actor at home at the present time whioh I most sincerely deplore," eaid«Sir Thonias Inskip, Minister for Co-ordination of DefenQe in Britain, speaking at Cambridge University. " Our Labour opponents ara too fond of CQmpelling other nations in Europe to listen to flouts and gibes and jeers and almost insults whieh ean have no other effect than to provoke angry feeling, and possibly lead to nnintended consequences. I would like to utter one word depreeating these criticisms— ^whether they are deseryed or undeserved dpes not seem to me to matter a pin. I notice how prone they are to insult politicians or leaders of European nations and yet how blind they ara to the consequences, how unready they, are to prepare for the consequences which they seem ready to prov.oke. If you are going to intexfere with' other nations in Europe, if you are going to express opinions which you may sincerely hold about their conduct, do it. Tbe logical conelusion is that you should be prepared to arjn yourselves against the out- • break whieh you are very likely to provolre. Yet our Labour friends are nofc very wjUiug to conibine with the Government in making the sssseas?? ii Ssm Vafpihf ifet mlmi*