BRITAIN REARMS FOR PEACE
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"OUr Siirest Guaraiitee," Says Mr Chamberlain N0 DESIRE FOR WAR
(Received 6, 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY, July 5. The Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said: "Everyone knows that Britain 's fearmament Will never be used for purposes of aggression. Everyone knows that even ih peace time it is ready to perform those humanitarian functions which seem alwa.ys to fall upon this country. In thes'e last few weeks nearly 40,000 Soanish refugees have been escorted to places of safety under the protection of the British flag. "Before thht lamenthble aft'air cbtties
to an end there will be thousands of Bpanishi women and children who will have caus-e to thank God for the presence of British ships in Spanish Waters. "I have been. told by important representatives of foreign countrieB in the iast few weeks that British rearmament is weleomed by every small nation because they realise, as do our Dominions, that a strong Britain is the surest guarantee to peace that can exist."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 144, 6 July 1937, Page 7
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