BRITISH STRENGTH

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 5

BRITISH STRENGTH

PESSIMISM DEPRECATED

NO NEED FOR ANXIETY NATIONAL SERVICE (United press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 8 In the course of a speech, the Marquess of Londonderry said Germany’s progress toward strength provoked difficulty, but he did not say that with any note of pessimism, or in any spirit of alarm. With the great material assets of the British Empire, and with the great democracies—the United States and France —allied in thought with this country

there was no force in the world which need Give them cause for anxiety. The times in which they lived, however, were so strange that, because there was nothing of a startling character in Herr Hitler’s speech, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Herr Hitler told the world that unless Germany could export she must die. But every country was in the same position and there must be some method by which trade throughout the world could be stimulated when there were such vast undeveloped treasures. The nation-wide distribution of the Guide to National Service in connection with the voluntary service recruiting campaign which was begun on January 25, was not completed until February 1. Nevertheless by February 4 more than 100,000 applications for enrolment in various services had been received.