BRITISH PREMIER REJECTS HITLER’S PROPOSALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 5

BRITISH PREMIER REJECTS HITLER’S PROPOSALS

Conquests Not To Be Recognised REFUSAL OF UNEASY TRUCE ISSUE FOR TI IF. CF.RMAN PEOPLE (British Official Wireless.) (deceived This Day. 11.1 a.m.) RUGBY, October 12. Li tlie House of (.’ominous, Air .Neville (’haiuberlain declared lliat it was impossible for Britain to accept proposals based on a recognition of Herr Hitler’s conquests without forfeiting honour and abandoning the claim that internal ional disputes should bo settled by discussion and not by force. He said: ‘.‘Whatever be the issue of Hie present struggle, tin 1 world will not* be Ihe same world we have known before. We will see deep changes which will inevitably leave their mark on every field of men’s thoughts and actions, and if humanity is to guide aright the new forces that will be in operation all nations will have their part Io play. The British Government knows all too well that in a modern war between Great Powers the victor and (he vanquished must alike suffer cruel loss. But surrender lo wrongdoing would spell the extinction of all hope and Ihe annihilation of all those 1 values of life which through Ihe centuries have, been at once the mark and inspiration of human progress. We seek no material advantage for ourselves. We desire nothing from the German people which should offend I heir self-respect. lam certain that all the peoples of Europe, including the Germans, long for peace. The peace which we are determined to secure, however, must be a real and settled peace, not an uneasy truce interrupted by constant alarms and repealed threats. The German Government alone stands in the way of such a peace.”