OUTLOOK IN EUROPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1939, Page 6

OUTLOOK IN EUROPE

IMPRESSIONS OF LORD STRABOLGI

TRANCE AMD BRITAIN TIRED OF CONCESSIONS.

SCANDAL OF INTERVENTION IN SPAIN., I.By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Lord Strabolgi arrived today on business connected with the Centennial Exhibition. He said Germany and Italy were not in an economically safe position to go to war, but the best people in Germany would welcome war solely for the purpose of getting rid of the Hitler regime. France and Great Britain were tired of concessions, and he thought Mr Chamberlain knew he could not get away with further concessions on his visit to Rome.

"There may be another crisis, and it may come upon us within a few days as a result of the visit," Lord Strabolgi added. “It is the policy of the dictators in Europe to keep up a general state of unrest and uncertainty. They create a nuisance value by demanding concessions as the price of peace. If war had come in September, the calculation is that it would have lasted just three weeks, and then the Army would have taken control in Germany, and made peace. The dangel’, of course, is that the dictators, German or Italian, will decide on wars as a last desperate throw, either because of growing economic difficulties or on account of growing dissension. If the Fascists won in Spain,” he observid, “it would make the strategic position very serious from the naval viewpoint. The only thing that would beat the Republicans and loyalists was starvation and. thank Heaven, the Americans were sending food. Lord Strabolgi said he wished other democracies had done that. The intervention of Italy and Germany in Spain was a scandal crying aloud to Heaven.