NATIONAL SENTIMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1939, Page 6

NATIONAL SENTIMENT

DEMONSTRATION OF UNITY IN BRITAIN SPOKESMEN OF ALL PARTIES AGREED. NO REMAINING EXCUSE FOR MISUNDERSTANDING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, July 2. A remarkable rallying of national sentiment behind Lord Halifax’s declaration that, in the event of further aggression, Britain is resolved to use the whole of its strength in fulfilment of its pledges to resist it —a declaration to which special point had been given by the developments and rumours of the last few days concerning Danzig—was illustrated in a notable series of speeches yesterday. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Party, said: “If anyone forces war upon this country, or on some other country the independence of which we are pledged to defend, he will find that there will be no defeatists here.” Mr Ramsay Muir, vice-president of the Liberal Party organisation, expressed the view that the British people were united and resolute to resist any further attack on democracy and upon the freedom of other nations. Mr Anthony Eden declared that the British people were determined henceforth that there should be neither hesi • tation before threats nor concession to force. Other speeches were made by AirMarshal Trenchard and Sir Stafford Cripps. This demonstration of identity of view in all parties, combined with the firm and clear statement made by Lord Halifax last week, leads the Sunday newspapers to emphasise, in their com - ment on the international situation, that now there is no excuse for anyone anywhere to misunderstand the position of Britain.