Crushed; German "Peace Offers" Condemned London, Sept. 10.
NHE Ministry of Information announces that the War Cabinet will meet this morning to decide to base its policy upon the assumption that wat will last for three years or more, 'A statement issued through the Ministry of Information adds: "Instructions are, being issued to all Government departments to ensure that plans for the future shall be immediately prepared on this assumption. Meanwhile, all measures for which prepara-being brought fully into active operation. tion is already being made are
"The furtherance of the expanded defence programmes. is already operating, ud the Ministry of Supply forthwith will take necessary steps to ensure that the productive capacity for munitions of all kinds will be increased on the scale required to meet every possible issue. Corresponding arrangements are being made by the Admiralty and the Air Ministry, In the interests of the nation, the civil needs of the country will be borne in mind, as well. as the importance of maintaining the export trade, "The War Cabinet is eénfident that this significant decision will meet with the whole-hearted support of the British people, and will be welcomed by our Allies and. friends."
Most emphasis, states Reuter's Di-[plomatic Correspondent, is laid on fact, not tat the Government basing its policy on the assumption that the war will last for three. years of more, but on the fact that Britain fs "determined to see the matter through, and to fight Naziism to the Futile Paris, Sept. 10.
Neither France nor Great Britain will abandon Poland and Marshal Hermann Goering's "peace offensive," launched with his speech before Berlin factory-workers today, is doomed to object failure as long as German troops remain in Poland. Such was the concensus of opinion in French political quarters today. These quarters attached importance to the speech, which they described as being "most interesting" and showing, what arguments were used German propaganda to influence the German people. It was also the first overt sign of the international, political manauvre that the Reich plans to carry out, Fieldmarshal Goering, French poli~ feal circles stated, alleged that G any. attacked Poland in, order to establish order and abolish the Injustices of Versailles Treaty but the Germans have already advanced beyond the borders of the territory that it occupied prior to 1919. Neither Cracow nor, Warsaw were ever German, The Reich, these quarters declared, was embarked on a war of conquest, and the Western Democracies would not yield to any manauvre as Jong as German soldiers remained on Polish territory.
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