POISONOUS PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 11

POISONOUS PROPAGANDA

REAL TRAGEDY OF EUROPE’S FUTURE. "The real tragedy of the situation seems to me to be that the future of | Europe is being poisoned today by means of the propagation of false and unfounded suspicions,” said Mr Neville Chamberlain in a recent speech. The German people, for instance, are being drenched day and night with assertions that Great Britain is planning to encircle them, and encirclement, they are told, means the denial to them of the natural and legitimate expansion of their trade and the exercise of a gradually increasing economic pressure designed to lower their standards of life till they are finally crushed and helpless. What a grotesque travesty of the attitude of Britain! The aim of our foreign policy is now. as always, to establish a peaceful world, where each nation can pursue its occupations in security and confidence. In such a world we can see great prospects for the expansion of German industry and lhe employment of German workers, lor every country today needs goods and equipment such as Gorman and British industries arc particularly well able to supply. In a world in which confidence was restored our two countries could well co-operate in developing the resources which still lie talent and which would bring in returns of solid value to us both.”