NAZI ATTITUDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1938, Page 7

NAZI ATTITUDE

RESENTED BY BRITISH MINISTER FRIENDSHIP MISTAKEN FOR COWARDICE. PLAIN WORDS OF WARNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, December 5. Earl de la Warr, President of the Board of Education, speaking at Bradford today, said that there had always been in Britain a hieing for the .German people and a realisation that their system of' government was no affair of theirs, but there was a deep and growing feeling that nothing Britain could do would satisfy them, that friendly words and actions were mistaken for cowardice, and that only armaments could speak effectively. “Every man and woman was ready last September/’ said the Minister. “If fight we must, our cause will triumph.” - «.•

“ROYAL 5.0.5.” HEARST PRESS VIEW OF KING’S VISIT. BRITAIN’S ALLEGED WEAKNESS NEW YORK, December 3. The Hearst Press gives prominence today to an article on the “Decline and Fall of the British Empire,” in which their Majesties’ visit to America is described as “a Royal SOS to the United States of America.” Carl von Weigand, Hearst’s chief foreign correspondent, comments: “Strange and ironic as it will appear, the fate of Britain of George VI in no small measure may lie in the hands of the one-time American colonies of- George 111, who hired German legions to fight George Washington. “Her weaknesses being manifold, Britain is turning to America, and the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth is the biggest and most dramatic SOS to America that England could possibly make.” The writer makes charges of incredible complacency, inertia, or incompetence in high places in England, and says that the British Commonwealth is a loose-jointed democracy where each foot and each hand goes its own happy way. The outstanding weakness is London’s inability to command Australia ana other Dominions.