WAR WITH GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1938, Page 7

WAR WITH GERMANY

ALLEGED DESIRE BY ENGLISH FACTION Sensational Story in Berlin Newspaper OPINIONS OF ITS LONDON CORRESPONDENT By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) BERLIN, June 17. The allegation that Mr Winston Churchill, Mr Anthony Eden and others lead an English faction desiring war with Germany is made by the London correspondent of the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.” He asserts that a change occurred in British opinion after the German absorption of Austria, greatly strengthening anti-German quarters. Mr Neville Chamberlain, Viscount Halifax, and also some of the members of the Left Wing, unequivocally desire peace, but the Government camp includes a war faction. Mr Winston Churchill’s influence may be small but Mr Eden's is growing, because of the delay in the Anglo-Italian agreement, the continuation of the Spanish war and the Czechoslovakian incident. The war faction also finds support in the city. as well as with high officialdom within the Government. It is no longer sufficient for Mr Chamberlain, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoare to repudiate the inevitability of war thesis, when in private conversation among highlyplaced officials they declare the opposite.