London, Feb. 4.
Mr, Neville Chemberlain, the Prime Minister, said in-a speech at Birmingham to-day that Great Britain had Just given proof of her confidence in the future by relaxing the regulations on lending to foreign borrowers. He believed the change would stimulate international trade.
The aim of the British Government, the Prime Minister declared, was to make 1938 the starting point of new confidence and security throughout he world, Mr. Chamberlain, paid a tribute t^ the work of Sir Thbmas Inskip as Minister for the Ca-Ordination of Defence, and said thet now that the initial difficulties of the rearmament programme had been overcome, he did not think there was any cause for anxiety as to whether it was going fast enough or far enough.
He believed, he said, that the lessening of tension and the increased feeling of security in Europe to-day was largely due to the progress of British rearmament,
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