THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 5, 1988
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Herbert Morrison's Alternatives To Government
Earl Baldwin
Supports Premier In Maiden Speech
London, To-day.
When the debate on the international situation was resumed yesterday in the House of Commons, Mr. Herbert Morrison (Labour) criticised the Government's foreign policy.
Mr. Morrison urged that Britain must join other countries in a collective organisation for the peace of the world or continue with submission to blackmail.
REDUCED WAR
RISK RATES
London, To-day.
A revised list of minimum war risk rates for merchandise pu- blished last night shows consider- able reductions from those ruling during the crisis.
Latest rate between the Unit- ed Kingdom and the Continent of Asia is outwards 5/- per cent. and homewards 7/6 per cent, |with an additional 2/6 per cent.
south or west of the line Cette (France)-Malta-Tripoli.-Router.
CZECH FORCES RETIRING FROM MAGYAR ZONE?
Budapest, To-day.......
Reports here from the Hun- garian-Slovakian frontier state that the Czechs have commenced to evacuate the territory to be ceded to Hungary.
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Evacuation is proceeding over a region from Gratislava to Ungvar. The Czech troops are carrying away large quantities of barbed wire entanglements and also num- Mr. Herbert Morrison suggested erous machine guns, and are with- The Government had increasingly cold-shouldered that Ministers were under an illu- drawing into interior of the coun- the League of Nations, and had been a party to sion if they believed the electorate, try, leaving only a few small scat- relieved as it was by the avoidance tered detachments behind for sentry of war, would be prepared to ac-duty and to maintain order in the the weakening of its moral authority. Mr. Morrison was of the opinion that the Czechs cept what had happened without evacuated region.
These detachments are composed His own case against the Gov-exclusively of soldiers of Hun- had been betrayed, and that the $10,000,000 asking some searching questions, loan was the most conclusive evidence that the erment was that by the policy ofgarian nationality. Government felt some dishonour.
and the
weakening the moral authority of Czech officials and settlers have the League of Nations and destroy-left the purely Hungarian frontier Czecho-Slovákia had lost been how to get into contact withing the faith of small States in the districts taking all their movable collective system and by the atti- belongings with them. All Czech £20,000,000 worth of armaments, the dictators.
"It troubled, me long before Itude of political discrimination factories and shops have been contents of the including their great Maginot Line, while in effect we had in-was Prime Minister, and since they against Russia, they had brought closed
machinery of Britain into a position of greater shops sold out as far as possible.
All towns and villages evacuated creased the German army by jhave scrapped the
danger. diplomacy.
CZECHS A DEBIT 400,000 fully trained men.
by the Czechs are now decorated "If you want to get anything by Mr. Leslie Burgin, replying for
The Government had turned away with Hungarian flags and the in- the Government, said that the them, it had to be told them direct
from building up of a combination habitants eagerly await the entry man in the street had a shrewd by a man with a policy.”
Lord Baldwin added that it was of peaceful powers and had left of Hungarian troops. →
The Hungarian-Slovakian fron suspicion that the change during the week-end came through the hard for a Democratic Prime Min-nations which might have follow- acts and doings of one man, ister to commit himself in the same ed Britain and stood by her in col-tier can already be freely crossed way as a man with absolute power. lective action to draw the conclu- by the civilian population of the (Government cheers).
That was a risk that must be sion that they would be wiser to border region. Trans-Ocean. taken unless they were willing to join up with the dictatorships.
As a final step in this mistaken To have converted the imme-ostracise them completely, with re-
sults that might be formidable to policy the Government had acquies- diate risk of an armed occupa-
the whole world.
ced in the weakening of Czecho- tion into the background of sen-
Slovakia and the augmentation of sible discussion was the first of
COUNTRY READY?
Germany's strength by: 400,000 many miracles which the Prime
trained men and £25,000,000 worth Minister had performed.
After remarking that war was All evidence was that on Sept. different to-day from what it was of armaments. From being an as- set on the side of peace as quite an 14, a decision to invade Czecho-up to the last three or four years,
important military power loyally Slovakia had already been taken. Lord Baldwin said:
He did not believe that any-Minister ought to commit this coun-co-operating within the League of thing would have altered Hitler's try to war unless he is convinced Nations, this policy had transform- Selection began yesterday
ed Czecho-Slovakia into a debit in 1,000 men of the British Legion course if the Prime Minister had that the country is ready.” not acted as he did. (Cheers).
Lord Baldwin expressed entire the form of a guarantee which it who are being sent to Sudetenland REASON. NOT FORCE agreement with those who would was proposed Britain should give for police duties in the plebiscite
“MIRACLE
"No Prime
of her new frontiers.
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BRITISH LEGION GROUP FOR
SUDETEN AREAS
areas.
London, To-day.
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The force is essentially democra- The German people had be- push on to bring our defences to a
NOT PEACE POLICY come aware in increasing num- satisfactory point with the least
Mr. Morrison argued that the tic, with admirals, generals, busi- bars that reason had triumphed possible delay.
Prime Minister's insistence on the nessmen and workmen dressed alike and not force.
Recalling the dramatic incident
need for not relaxing the program- in blue greatcoats with a blue and All are armed only with walking- It was a step forward that the in the House of Commons last
sticks.. Frime Minister's speech on Mon-week, when Lord Halifax (the Forme of rearmament showed that he gold armlet and peaked police caps. The men will all receive regula- day had already been read and eign Secretary) received the his was not satisfied that his policy Mr. Morrison was immediately
tion pay of 75/- a week for married digested by the entire population toric message from Hitler in the would bring peace.
middle of Mr. Chamberlain's Reuter. of Germany.
answered by the Minister of Trans- London, To-day. speech, Lord Baldwin said:
port, who accused him of neglect-men and 63 for single men.
The volunteers are reporting at ing the facts of recent events and Olympia for instructions to-morrow In his maiden speech in the House of Lords on the interna
{(Thursday), after which they are making the usual common form of "It was just as if a finger of gold attack on the foreign policy of the leaving for Sudetenland under the tional situation, Lord Baldwin
leadership of Sir Francis Feather- yesterday praised Mr. Chamber- had drawn a rainbow once more
had ratifled Government. lain, who had solved a problem across the sky and
Mr. Burgin recalled how the
ston-Godley-Reuter. to visit 1 Hitler at which had worried him when he again His covenant with the child-
Premier's flight
The E. and was Prime Minister,
ren of men.
Berchtesgaden three weeks ago had captured the imagination of the en- tire world and had planted the first seed of hope that war
FLEETING HOURS
Lord Baldwin declared that he "The children of the men of all knew little of what had passed be- nations have their part to play now tween the Chancelleries of Europe; in these fleeting hours before us, but he knew enough to know that and may the rulers of all nations when Mr. Chamberlain took his de-be filled with godly understanding avoided.
THE GERMAN MIND. cision at Berchtesgaden, “I know no and knowledge."" (Loud cheers).
The Prime Minister had had man who could have done what he Lord Baldwin's speech was de- did when he went into the discus-livered in ringing tones, which is unerring appreciation of Ger sions in Germany."
very unusual In the House of mentality. The idea of direct
dat syari sonal talk between the heads of gov- It was a performance for which Lords.
He completely captured the at- ernments made an instantaneous ap- this country owed him much.
CONTACT WITH DICTATORS,tion of the House, and the brevity peal to the German mind. "One of our greatest difficulties of his speech added to Its effecWorld opinion had not been mie-
led in the significance attaching throughout the last five years has tiveness. Reuter.
A. Steam Ship leave for Shanghai, saka and Yokohama at
and it had required al courage to act
The Prime Minister, Dr. Burgin eclared, had made a étand for De mocracy, and he went on to refute the argument that greater firminosa.
British ireless: would have prevented war.