BRITISH DIPLOMACY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 7

BRITISH DIPLOMACY

DEPENDENT ON THE FORCE BEHIND IT CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT EARL WINTERTON ON NATIONAL SERVICE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. RUGBY, October 11. Earl Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, speaking at Worthing yesterday, said that Mr Chamberlain was absolutely right when he declared that the power of British diplomacy must depend upon the force behind it. Britain’s ability to find a lasting settlement in Western Europe depended on the state of the defences of England and spirit of its people. In dictatorship countries every man, woman and child had allotted to them in peacetime duties which they would have to perform in wartime. Nobody wanted to see a system of that kind in Britain, but, to compete in the European struggle for power with the dictatorship countries, British voluntary efforts must be of a much greater extent than they had been up to now. ESSENTIAL SERVICES NEED OF PREPARATIONS FOR EMERGENCY RUGBY, October 11. At the conference at Clacton yesterday of the National Chamber of Trade, attention was directed to the question of the mobilisation of industry and other essential services. Mr Chamberlain’s assurance of prompt inquiry into the position of preparedness in peace against emergency was welcomed. The president, in his address, said that the emergency drew a ready response to the call of duty, but that willingness to serve must be linked with workable plans. LEAD DEMANDED MANCHESTER RESOLUTION > RUGBY, October 11. The directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce have passed a resolution urging the early introduction of . a scheme to organise now in time of peace the work and national service of every able-bodied citizen so as to achieve the maximum of national effort in time of war. It is further maintained in the resolution that the country would heartily endorse an appropriate scheme of national service or registration and the Government is asked to give an immediate lead on these lines. .