ECONOMIC STRAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 37, 14 February 1939, Page 7

ECONOMIC STRAIN

WHERE BRITAIN SCORES TEMPERATURE OF NATIONS NOT HIGH I British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Feb. 12. Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Health, speaking in Halifax, said that certain simple facts in the international situation were strikingly clear. The economic strain on "all arming nations to-day was severe and increasing. In that strain the ir.’mense economic reserves of Britain were coming into play, and with greater effect as the pace increased. The strength of Britain was increasing not only in its armed forces but in the long, slow burning, reluctant, but resolute gathering up of its spirit. There were great forces of goodwill which still made themselves manifest in England, he continued. Hatreds had not yet begun to flicker. Britain had been able to make agreements both with democracies and totalitarian States. The temperature of the nations was not hign, ana despite all shocks and disturbances to which the world had been subjected, the temperature still fell when exciting causes were quiescent. There was in Britain a national unity which, despite surface disturbances, was very great indeed.

“ONE-DISH DAY” SINGLE-COURSE DINNER AT REICH CHANCELLERY WINTER RELIEF FUND \ BERLIN, Feb. 12. Hen Adolf Hitler, celebrating “onediiii day,” entertained 14UU deserving men and women to a single course dinner of bacon and pease-pudding at the Reich Chancellery in aid of the winter relief fund.