"However much the British people may want peace, they feel instinctively that there are things without which life as they know it would not be worth living.
"But peace also has its responsibilities.
"Herr Hitler declared the other day that the German nation must exper or die. No doubt this is true for Germany; it is certainly true for the United Kingdom.
"But what is quite untrue is Herr Hitler's statement that the War was waged to exclude Germany from world trade, Germany was England's best customer before the War, and no two countries are bound more closely together by commercial and financial partnership. Why should we then or now wish to exclude Germany from world trade?
We never believed in England that competition is exclusive. We believe that in days of prosperity and peace it promotes trade all round."
Need for Period of Peace Referring to Herr Hitler's predict ion of a long period of peace, Lord Halifax said.—
"No one hopes more devotedly than I do that this prediction will be fulfilled.' It will give the world a real assurance of peace, trade will revive, and economic development will be possible, whereby all will benefit. It will leave the achievements of the last century far behind.
(Continued on page 11) made on them, by Japanese naval officials, revealed nothing of the sort.
They were taken into Tsingtao harbour from where the H.MS. Bir-bingham subsequently obtained the release of the British freighter which returned here last Wednesday.
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