CHURCHILL UNEASY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 5

CHURCHILL UNEASY

HITLER SCREWING DOWN SAFETY VALVE CONTINUED PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. EASTWARD FLOW OF MUNITIONS & SUPPLIES. LONDON, February 2. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking to his constituents in Essex today, declared that he was disquieted by Herr Hitler’s encouragement of his fellow dictators and his extraordinary claims on France. “I wish I could be sure,” he said, “that the dismissal of Dr Schacht does not mean a further screwing down of the safety valve. I wish I could be sure that a steady flow of munitions and supplies is not moving forward from the recently-conquered and dominated German territories to Hungary and perhaps beyond, or that a similar stream is not moving southward into Italy. “I wish I could be sure that the German troops mobilised in September have all returned to their homes. We must be thankful that the United States is closely following events here and is rearming on such an immense scale.”

COMMENT IN BRITAIN WAR MORE UNLIKELY. ON ACCOUNT OF ROOSEVELT’S ATTITUDE. LONDON, February 2. The “Daily Telegraph,” in a leader, says that President Roosevelt’s words emphasise and make more precise his message to Congress last month. They indicate that he intends to fight for the policy of refusing moral and material aid to aggressors. It must be concluded, says the paper, that events in South America, Europe and the Far East have profoundly affected the trend of public and Presidential opinion in the United States. The “News Chronicle” says: “President Roosevelt stated picturesquely what is no more than a fact that, if the Americans wish for a survival of liberty, tolerance and democracy, they must make their influence felt.” The “Daily Herald” says: “Because of the President’s attitude, war now becomes more unlikely. It is in preventing rather than winning a war that world hope lies.” GAYDA’S EFFORT ITALO-GERMAN FRONTIER AT PANAMA. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 2. The Rome correspondent of the British United Press says Signor Gayda, retorting to President Roosevelt’s declaration, which he describes as an apparently premeditated act leading to a provocation to war, discouraging Mr Chamberlain’s policy, while offering a hand to Bolshevism,. says the German and Italian defensive frontiers must extend to the Panama Canal.