LABOUR & DEFENCE
“Defence depends not merely on machines, but on the number of men available to run them,” said Mi’ Robert Bernays, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, speaking at Kendal. “It would be well for the Labour leaders to recall when attacking the British Government that they themselves have refused to take any part in the recruiting campaign. Nor can the Labour Party say with any shred of truth that it would have played its full part in rearmament had the Government given the country warning of the danger. The Government did so in 1935. It asked for a rearmament mandate, and the only response of the Labour Party was to placard the hoardings with the poster inscribed ‘Armaments mean war; more armaments mean more war.’ Democracy cannot Rourish unless on an issue of such supreme importance at national defence the safety of the country over-rides party differences on this or that aspect of foreign policy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 2
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158LABOUR & DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 2
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