LORD NUFFIELD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6

LORD NUFFIELD

ARRIVAL IN WELLINGTON COMMENTS ON THE WORLD OUTLOOK. DOES NOT EXPECT WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Lord Nuffield arrived by the Awatea on his sixth visit to the Dominion. He spends only three days in this country, going to Palmerston North tomorrow and then on to Napier, returning to Wellington via the Wairarapa and leaving by the Rangitiki on Thursday. Lord Nuffield said his trip was in keeping with his policy of keeping touch with conditions in the Dominions. Britain, he observed, was busy with her rearmament programme. This would not be cut off suddenly, but would slacken, so that industrial production would gradually replace it. Britain was busier than any other country. Regarding the international situation, he did not think there was going to be any war. Mr Chamberlain’s idea was to prevent any further bloodshed. When people suggested that Mr Chamberlain was afraid —“we all are.” Britain was rearming, not to fight, but to prevent fighting and her rearmament was faster than that of anybody else. If he had thought there was going to be war he Would not be away out here. International affairs were evolving to a degree that if a war was started the rest of the world would be against the aggressor nation. Lord Nuffield said he thought Mr Chamberlain was responsible for America’s present international attitude. In a reference to Jewish refugees, Lord Nuffield said Britain was taking a large proportion and he thought the Dominions would be better off if they took a fair number of better class, who were nearly all people of high education and could teach us something. He had noticed some on his trip out, and was surprised to find that they were of such a desirable type.