BRITAIN AND EUROPE
PRIME MINISTER’S EXPOSITION OF POLICY'
Expectation of Early War Scouted. EXACT CONTRARY THE CASE LONDON, April 9. The Birmingham Unionist Association enthusiastically received the Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, who declared: “In spite of existing treaties with France and Belgium, British people decline to commit themselves respecting other countries, and must reserve to themselves the right to say whether they will enter war or not. It would. be a gamble if advice were obeyed to take a bolder course of laying down the circumstances in which we will go to war. We would not give the word for war unless convinced that not otherwise could we preserve our liberty. Our policy is not to divide Europe into two opposing blocs, each arming against the other amid a growing flood of ill-will, which can only induce war. We may not approve of dictatorships, but there they are. We have to live with them, and, while we must rearm until we can get general agreement to disarm, we must in the meantime try to establish friendship with any nation willing to be friendly to us.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 7
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