THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1939
Library, Supreme Cour)
The Empire's Strength
We Can Never Be Defeated
64 JITTERBUGS" IN
EUROPE
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, speak ing at Swansea, said he was stating a fact when he declared that "this great country and this great Empire can never be defeated."
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Sir Samuel said that if they took seriously the Opposition attacks upon the Government and the Frime Minister they would believe that British pres tige had sunk to the lowest possible depth, and that Mr Chamberlain was either aguileless old man who was always taken in by the cunning dictators or a Fascist in disguise who was ready to sacrifice Bri- tish interests for Fascist favours!
"No`air attack would ever des-
No offe in Europe Believed those become a formidable system of de- charges. Everywhere on the Con- fence. timent men and women spoke of Great Britain as the chief safeTM| guird of peace in Europe, and of the Prime Minister as the great peacemaker of Europe.
“I am told,” said. Sir Samuel, "that when the other day he was driving through the streets of Rome, the people, gathered together in their thousands, were saying: 'Chamberlain is Europe's life- buoy,"
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Dealing with the prospect of war or peace, he said that there were two incontrovertible facts that stood out from an obscure back- ground of fears and guesses-the passionate desire of the peoples of Europe for peace and the invin- cibility of Great Britain and the Britain Empire.
· ECONOMIC STRENGTH Regarding the latter, he said: "When I say that this great cous- try and this great Empire can never be defeated, I am not playing with phrases nor using rhetoric for ef- fect.
"I am statithout exposing con- pose to-night, fidential details, to deal sufficiently with it to expose the folly of the critics who deny its truth.
a fact, and I pro-
"Economic strength is one of the greatest lines of defence, particular- ly when it is manned by an obetîn- ate and resolute people. Our econo- mic system has stood the strains and stresses of the crises of recent years better than any other system in the world.”
He flatly contradicted any abser- tion that the days of the ̧ . Fleets were over. Aviation had created new problems for the Navy, but în recent years the Admiralty had been adapting its strategy and tactics to the new conditions, and in his view the proper use of air force by the Navy, itself would extend rather than diminish British sea power
Referring to the effects of mo- dern air warfare, which some peo- ple thought would be a knock-out blow, Sir Samuel said that ho, did not believe that in nay, Ecrostata war any country e could afford to send more than & dext of [14s air force upons raidbig, expedithhs.
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troy our will to resist. I believe, on cowardice in the face of a potentia the contrary, that any such attempt enemy)" Those men, whether they will increase by a hundred-fold our are gamblers on the Stock determination to vanquish the ag- changes of the world, or manipula- gressor
tora of exchange, or simply foolish "Let the world ponder upon these People without nerve and backbone, ponder on them who say that we "In the United States there is a things, and particularly let those a public nuisance, have grown weary with ago and clash of people who sit listching in 1914. They had a rude awakening feeble in power. So they thought in Hysterical excitement to what is
called but music and waiting for
"Yes, and let those also ponder the Linn-crash, Americans, in their on them who go about the world fozalble language, call them tho with white faces and trembling lips Jitterbugs. There are many people asking each other which day of in Europe to-day who seem to be be the week and of the month the having in much the same way. world war is going to begin.
“WAR NOT INEVITABLE”
doing the greatest harm. They are undermining • public confidence. They are creating a fatal feeling of the inevitability of war, when there is no such inevitability at all.
“Worst of all, they are showing
"These timid panic-mongers are
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"Im the past we have been unpre- pured 1 admit it. But I claim to-day that our preparations have already progressed to a formidable point.”
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