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FOUR CARDINAL POINTS OF BRITAIN'S DEFENCE POLICY Mr. Chamberlain Warns That Cost Will Be High
Terrifying Power Of Britain
Sobering For World
London, To-day.
PARLIAMENT MR. CHURCHILL
APPROVES
DEFENCE
POLICY
London, To-day.
A Labour opposition amend-
yesterday was defeated by 351 Totes to 134.
The Prime Minister's motion
Elaboration of the policy behind the Defence Whitement in the House of Commons
Paper issued on March 2, was given in the House of Commons yesterday by the Prime Minister when he asked the House to approve the statement.
Mr. Chamberlain thought it significant that, gener-
approving the Government's de
fence policy was carried by 347 votes to 133-Reuter.
ally speaking, throughout the country there SUPPRESSION OF
was a conviction that the course embarked
upon when rearmament began was unavoid- LEFTIST BOOKS
able.
He declared that the original,
the £1,500,000,000 previously object of Sir Thomas Inskip's ap- contemplated is insufficient. pointment as Minister for Co "It is too soon to say what figure ordination of Defence has been must be substituted, but I am achieved
afraid that the House must expect Never had planning for strate-a substantial advance." gic purposes been brought to Referring to the efforts to bring the same complete scale as at about appeasement in Europe, Mr. present.
Chamberlain said: "It ought to be Dealing with requests whether known that our desire for peace the British first line of strength does not signify willingness to pur- would provide parity with any chase peace to-day at the price of European air force within striking peace hereafter, nor can we forget distance, Mr. Chamberlain said our moral responsibility to our am forced to the inevitable conclu-people or to humanity in general. sion that in first-line strength, FRIEND OF LEAGUE other factors are reserves of "We cannot divest ourselves of equipment and raw materials, anti-interest in world peace.”
aircraft defences, personnel, mor- In another passage of his speech ale, the quality of aircraft and the Mr. Chamberlain claimed to be a fact that with aircraft you cannot better friend of the League than set one aeroplane against another some who speak for it. as with ships.
AGGREGATE VALUE
"The sight of
"The League to-day is mutilated. It is halt and lame," he declared. "To attempt to measure air pow-1 Referring to opposition criticism er and air strength by first line of the armaments programme, Mr. strength is a delusion and a spare: Chamberlain said: We must look to the defence pro- this enormous and almost terrify-. blem as a whole from a wider as-ing power which Britain is build- pect, and take the aggregate value ing up has a sobering and steady- of our resources.”
ing effect on world opinion.”
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
Dealing with the question of "what is the policy for which these programmes
are designed," the Mr. C. R. Attlee, speaking for Prime Minister said: "The corner- the Labour opposition, declared stone of our defence policy must that we had embarked on a system be the security of the United King of alliances. ãom.
IN JAPAN
Tokyo, To-day.
CRITICAL ON AIR PLANS
London, To-day.
Mr. Lees Smith, moving the Labour amendment on the Defence White Paper, contended that the defence programme was the result of a policy pursued by the National Government over the past six y
years.
The Government, he said, could be relied on to defend British in- Iterests of the old-fashioned kind but they did not understand that real British interests were part of the world system and that only as a part of that system could they be defended successfully.
on
Mr. Lees Smith emphasised the importance of defence against air Latest step in the Japanese enemies were depending
attacks, arguing that potential the campaign for national spiritual effect of a sudden shattering blow mobilisation has been the suppres- and calculating on a short war. That sion of all Leftist ideas and books. must be countered not by attack else-
where but by defence at home. Many publications written years In a long war, the advantages scholars have now been branded ago by prominent Japanese would always be on the side of Bri- as Leftist and have been removed from circulation.
tain
LIBERAL DISQUIET
Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) As a result, the proscribed books said he was not convinced that the are fetching prices several times coordination of the last few years higher than previously, and second-had yet overcome the traditional hand booksellers are doing a great tendencies by which the most power- trade.-
ful department got the most money, irrespective of new aspects of the defence problem and new dangers, and he asked for more information particularly regarding the progress in air expansion.
Whether the demand is due to curiosity or to a desire
to read what is prohibited, is not known
-Reuter.
HONEYMOONERS LEAVE CAPRI
Rome, To-day.
As to the Army, he expressed the - hope that the Government had aban- doned the idea of waging warfare: on land on a Continental scale as in the last war.
The British contribution, he argu- ed, should be chiefly in the air and or the sea and in the production of munitions.
The former German War Minis- MR. CHURCHILL'S COMPLAINT ter, Field-Marshal Werner von Blom- The Premier had offended the
Mr. Winston Churchill expressed TRADE ROUTES,
spirit of a vast number of people, berg, has left Capri and is at pre-misgivings regarding Mr. Chamber- "That first main effort must also They were willing to stand for the sent with his young wife in Sorento, lain's having discarded first line have as its second objective the League but were not willing to be where they are enjoying long walks for the purpose of comparison with strength as the measure of air power preservation of trade routes on dragged into another war of which we depend for food and ray alliances.
in the neighbourhood, according to other countries. He was also not. materials.
Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the "Giornale d'Italia”.
satisfied with the rate of expansion "The third objective is defence the Co-operation of Defence, wind-
of the Air Force and he gave notice of British territories from sea, landing up the debate, emphasised that It is considered. probable that that on the Air Estimates he would there was scarcely a point in In-Field-Marshal von Blomberg will press for an enquiry into “Our need to maintain garri-perial defence policy that was not remain in Italy several months but the state of military aviation by sous and overseas naval bases in from week to week the subject of nothing is yet known of his further an independent tribunal.-British various parts of the world means very searching review,
plans-Trans-Ocean.
Wireless.
and air.
BALLOON BARRAGE
that in wartime there would im- mediately be substantial demands He said the vast majority of our] for remforcements strategic air squadrons were fully equipped
By March, 1939, we would have
points.
"But they are not as vital as 1,750 up to date first line planes of defence of our country, because so the highest possible power capa- long as we are undefeated at home, city.
AID TO ALLIES -
even if we sustain a loss overseas, The balloon barrage for London we may have the opportunity of was organised in ten aquadrons. making them good afterwards. Three out of four depots for storage and administration-would “The fourth objective must be be completed very shortly, while co-operation in defence of our Al- four-fifths of the balloons and all lies territories."
the winches had been delivered. beRenter.
"These objectives have been fore us in preparation of the vice
mmes.
Ser
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