BRITAIN'S AIMS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 5

BRITAIN'S AIMS

RESTORATION OF PEACE AFTER=WAR PROBLEMS REBUILDING NEW ORDER (United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 16 While appreciating Mr Churchill’s desire, in his House of Commons statement on war aims, not to be drawn into a complicated outline of specific proposals dealing with the post-war situation, the press stresses the emphasis which Mr Churchill laid on the fact that Britain is not fighting merely to maintain the status quo. The Times says:— “In the last war there was a temptation to look back to the world of 1914 as a golden age and to suppose that the restoration of this world would mean a return to an era of peace and prosperity. “The present generation is not likely to think in these terms of the world of 1939. This time the watchword cannot be restoration of the status quo. but the rebuilding of the very foundations of our social and international order.

“An assurance that Britain does not intend to wash her hands of a prostrate and devastated Europe, and that the British victory will bring with it not only the overthrow of their oppressors but the prompt relief of their distress, is an essential element in the British message to Europe, and the British answer to the plan of a new European order made in Berlin and resting on the domination of a single Power. Social Reconstruction “The international problem is intimately connected with social reconstruction in this country. It may well be that the right approach to the problem of international reconstruction will be through the avenue of reconstruction at home. Here there ■is no need to await the coming of victory to make a beginning. The war is not only confronting us with social problems which must be tackled at once, but is providing some of the conditions in which they can be met. “There can be no better propaganda for Britain abroad than a determination, in the midst of our other preoccupations, to meet these problems in the new spirit.”

AIR SUPREMACY BELONGS TO BRITAIN TRIBUTE FROM RUSSIA (United Press Asn.—Elec, Tel. Copyright) (Received Oct. 18, 11.40 a.m.) MOSCOW, Oct. 17 The Red Army organ says that air supremacy does not belong to Germany but to Britain. The Royal Air Force has not been crushed but is spreading its activities.

LONG=RANGE GUNFIRE NAZI E-BOAT IN DANGER SHELLS PERILOUSLY NEAR (United Pres* Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Oct. 18, Ip.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17 Long-range guns shelled a German E-boat in the Straits of Dover this afternoon. The E-boat fled in the mist off Cap Gris Nez after several shells fell perilously close. A Dornier flying-boat was escorting the E-boat.

NEW ZEALAND ORDERS £IOO,OOO WORTH PLACED MATERIAL FROM BRITAIN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Oct. 18, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17 During September the New Zealand Government placed orders for contracts to the value of £IOO,OOO with Midland and Scottish firms, chiefly for electricity and railway material.