POISONED BY GERMANY’S UNJUST SUSPICIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 5

POISONED BY GERMANY’S UNJUST SUSPICIONS

Mr Chamberlain on Encirclement Talk

GROTESQUE TRAVESTY OF BRITISH POLICY

WAY TO PEACE AND PROGRESS BARRED

By Telegraph.--Press Association -Copyright.

LONDON, June 24. “The real tragedy of the situation today seems to me to be that the future of Europe is being poisoned by the propagation of false and unfounded suspicions,” declared the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, in a speech in Cardiff. “The German people, for instance, are being drenched day and night with assertions that Britain is planning encirclement, which means a denial to (hem of the natural and legitimate expansion of lheir trade and I hi* exercise ol gradually increasing economic pressure designed to lower their standards of lile till they are finally crushed and helpless. What a grotesque travesty of the attitude of this country! “The aim of our foreign policy now, as it always has been, is to establish a peaceful work] in which each nation can pursue its occupations in security ami confidence. In such a world we see great prospects for the. expansion of German industry and the employment of German workers. “Every eoutilry needs goods and equipment such as the English and German industries particularly are able to supply, but such a future must remain a dream till Germany is ready to drop her unjust suspicions ol others and shows that- she is sincerely readv to talk reason with reasonable people.”