Believes Parliamentary Methods Out of Date Paris, Dec. 8.
Speaking at a public lecture here yesterday, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty, said that Germany's programme today was "far more aggressive than in. 1914."
Herr Hitler's programme," he dẹ- clared, "is the destruction of France.
"All Herr Hitler's promises have been broken.
"It would be an error to found the policy of our two countries on yesterday's renewed promises," (reference to the signing of the Franco-German Declaration).
Mr. Duff Cooper argued that Germany was not so strong militarily as many supposed.
He added that the alliance of France with the British Empire was "the most powerful in the world."
There was no greater advocate of peace than himself, but war could nos be avoided by perpetual concessions.
Comparing the democracies with the dictatorships, he said that the past twenty years had by no means been neglected by Great Britain and France to incyleate in young minds the horror, of war.
"On the other hand," "Mr. Duff Cooper declared, "for at least the past five years beyond the Rhine the younger generation has been taught that war is (he noblest of things."
He said that the parliamentary and governmental system in Great Britain had failed during the Great War, and during the crisis last September, and was unsuited to the continual crisis they were now going through, He suggested that the French parliamentary system was likewise outmoded.—Reuter. 1
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