INSULT RESENTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 7

INSULT RESENTED

MR DUFF COOPER REPLIES TO HITLER NEED OF BEING PREPARED. BEST HOPE OF AVERTING WAR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, June 7. . Mr Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty, making an appeal in Finchley or. behalf of the national service campaign, declared that Britain’s answer to Herr Hitler’s accusation that she was a thief should be the enrolment of a hundred thousand volunteers within 24 hours. Mr Duff Cooper added that it would have been unthinkable before the last war that a responsible man —if he still was responsible, which his actions and words seemed to make doubtful — should launch so great an insult at the most powerful country in Europe. If England were 100 per cent prepared for war there would be no war. A message received from Berlin on Tuesday stated: Hurling defiance at “British encirclement,” Herr Hitler, addressing 215,000 ex-Service men at Cassel, said that Britain’s aims remained the same as before the World War, namely, the destruction of Germany’s trade, annihilation of her mercantile fleet, and robbery of her colonies.