BITTER OUTBURST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1940, Page 5

BITTER OUTBURST

BRITISH M.P. ATTACKS MR CHAMBERLAIN ALLEGATION OF MISLEADING PROPAGANDA. MR HORE-BELISHA “SACKED.” By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, January 13. Mr T. L. Horabin, M.P. (Liberal), declared at Launceston (Cornwall) that he trembled to think what would happen if Mr Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson (industrial advisor to the Government and the “brass hats ran the war among them. He added that if the war was to be won Mr Chamberlain must go. He alleged misleading propaganda from the Ministry of Information and denied that time was on Britain s side. There was evidence that Germany would have an air force of 30,009 to 40,000 planes next spring. He believed that Mr Hore-Belisha was not given a chance to answer his critics but was sacked on the demand of the' generals and his subordinates. The Prime Minister was surrounding himself was “yes-men.”

AMERICAN VIEW AMAZING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. PRIME MINISTER IN STRONG POSITION. NEW YORK. January 13. The London correspondent of the “New York Times” says that the freedom of expression in Britain after four months of war is amazing compared with France today or the United States in the last war. Recently-published articles have blamed Mr Chamberlain’s appeasement policy for the outbreak of the war. Letters in the newspapers dwell more on Britain’s than on Germany s faults. Left Wing publications even debate whether the war merits support. The correspondent adds that Mr Chamberlain seems to be rejuvenated. He is in full command without a formidable rival and is more strongly supported than when lie was striving for peace at Munich. He is now as determined to defeat Hitler as he was previously to conciliate. His strength lies in the fact that in both policies he has been represented by the major currents of British opinion.