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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1939, Page 7

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FROM INTERNATIONAL TENSION BURDENS THAT MIGHT BE LIGHTENED. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S HOPE FOR THE WORLD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. May 11. In his speech at the Albert Hall, the Prime Minister (Mr N. Chamberlain) said Britain was as ready as ever to listen to the views of others, but was determined not to submit to dictation. It had never been Britain's wish to isolate or encircle Germany, nor to stand in the way of ner natural and legitimate trade expansion. Neither in armaments nor in economics, did Britain desire to enter into unbridled competition with Germany. Britain would not refuse to discuss with Germany measures , for an increase in trade or for the improvement of economic conditions, provided only that Britain could have unmistakable signs from German of a desire to restore confidence which had been so severely shaken. Mr Chamberlain repudiated a suggestion ihat- the basis of the AngloGerman naval treaty had been removed, as Herr Hitler had attempted to claim, by a change in the British attitude toward Germany. Speaking of the great burden of armaments which lay upon the world, the Prime Minister observed that if only the world ;could get respite from international tension, and from anxiety regarding war, they could look confidently forward to a great expansion of trade and prosperity from which not one but every people in the world would benefit.