The Archive · 1938

Energy to Rival Fascists

There must be something similar to the energy and enthusiasm shown by the dictatorship countries.

Urging the speeding up of Great Britain's re-armament programme, Mr. Eden declared that the contin-nance of present methods would mean permanent inferiority.

The democracies should seek to adjust their relations with the dictatorships, What was needed was not an armed truce, but an ordered world.

Britain's strength and unity would te a contribution to peace.

Mr. Eden advocated a National Government on a broad basis, as this, he added, was the only basis on which the motion could meet the competition awaiting her.—Reuter.

London, Oct, 15, The strike of porters at several stations, undertaken in sympathy with the unofficial raiwaymen's strike at St. Pancras and Euston stations, has begun to affect London's food supplies.

Nearly 1,000 tons of meat, fish, fruit and dairy produce, which had arrived at Broad Street station during the night, were left lying there when carriers and motor drivers joined the strike, Smithfield, Billingsgate and Covent Garden markets were affected.

The action of the Broad Street men was taken despite the warning by railway companies that all men who did not report for duty yesterday could consider themselves "selt-discharged." 1

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