London, Oct. 14.
"Britain professed her readiness to help aly to secure her legitimate ambitions £0 long as she did that without recourse to war," declared that. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in a speech Glasgow to-day.
'"Bven now, when she has begun hostilities" "he added, "we have never withdrawn those words, wwe have not sought in any wise to close the door which a little while ago we sought to open to her."
Referring {othe suggestion that the general election should be postponed until next spring, Mr. Chamberlain asked: "What right have we to say that the crisis will be passed by, next Spring?"
'Don't make any mistake,' he said. We are not alan end-we are at the beginning of what may be a very long period of dim culty, doubt and anxiety, in which there may be recurring crises of the most serious character, Mr. Chamberlain, referring Great Britain's defence programme, emphasized that the forces were not wanted for aggression.
"We do not intend to go any further than the absolute minimum, Recessary for our purpose," he declared, "and we shall not relax our efforts to try and obtain some. general agreement on disarmament" Reuter.
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