"BRITAIN IS TOO STRONG"
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"No Country Would Consider Fighting Her" MINISTER'S OPINIQN
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(Eeceived 10, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. ,fThe equipment ,and the defence services organisation for produeing armaments is so highly efficient to-day that it is most unlikely that any country would consider war against Britain, ' ' said the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir Samuel Hoare, at Norwich. He added that it was likely that a battleship would not be consideied a worthwhile target from the air iu future. A massed attaek on it would probably result in at least ten enemy aircraft being brought down.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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