EMPIRE UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 6

EMPIRE UNITY

OBSERVATIONS IN HOUSE OF LORDS FACTS HITLER DARE NOT FACE. DECEPTION OF COERCED PEOPLE. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. September 21. The Foreign Minister (Lord Halifax) in the House of Lords, said: ‘ Our efforts are reinforced by the response of the Dominions. 1 am certain that the great strength of Britain in every field will be organised to make her weight more and more felt.” Lord Maughan said that if Herr Hitler had the courage to tell the Germans of the determination and action the Dominions had taken, it would have a great effect on the determination of his coerced people to wage' war for the purpose of aggrandising Hitler him. self. The Dominions were not influenced by fear or by the hope of material advantage. There was no example in history so striking or so moving as the action of the Donations, unless it was Britain’s own example in 1914.

IMPERIAL COUNCIL NOT IMMEDIATELY PRACTICABLE. BRITAIN & DOMINIONS IN CLOSE CONTACT. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, replying to a questioner, said he did not think it immediately practicable to form an Imperial War Council. There were already close contacts between Britain and the Dominions ; and all matters connected with the prosecution of the war and means for the fullest possible co-operation between Governments were constantly under consideration. WINNING THE WAR ONLY WAY~TO HELP POLAND* ANSWER TO QUESTION IN BRITAIN. ' (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. A semi-official statement gives an answer to a question in many jminds: “What have we done to help. Poland?” A High authority crystallised the Government’s policy thus: The only way in which we are able to help Poland is by winning the war. We cannot help, Poland by embarking on some great effort, involving considerable losses, which ultimately would diminish our chances of winning the war.