London, Apr. 9.
Appeal for the creation of a new atmosphere of goodwill in the world as made by Mr. Neville Chamber-Jain, the Prime Minister, in an address before an audience of 2,500 at Birmingham last night. This was an: essential preliminary, he added, to a League of Nations that would work. the Prime Minister those of war.
He was not prepared "to gamble with the lives of men, women and children of our own race and blood." Though the stern necessity of war might arise in the future, as it had arisen in the past, he was not prepared to give the word for it unless he was absolutely convinced that in no other way could Britain preserve her liberty.
Dealing with the Anglo-Italian conversations, Mr. Chamberlain said that there was today a good prospect of restoring those old friendly relations between the two countries.
"I only ask you," he declared, "to have a little patience, and to wait
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