EUROPEAN PROBLEMS
THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IMMENSE ECONOMIC STRAIN STRONG POSITION OF BRITAIN LONDON, Feb. 12 The Minister of Health, Mr Walter Elliot, speaking at Halifax, said 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 immense 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, slowburning reluctant but resolute gather-ing-up of its spirits. There were great forces of goodwill which still made themselves manifest in England, the Minister continued. Hatreds had not yet begun to flicker. Britian had been able to conclude agreements both with democracies and with totalitarian States. The temperature of the nation was not high, and in spite of all the shocks and disturbances to which the world had been subjected, the temperature s-till fell when exciting causes were quiescent. There was in Britain a national unity which, in spite of surface disturbances, was very great indeed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 7
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180EUROPEAN PROBLEMS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 7
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