London, Oct. 12.
In the "Evening Standard" yester day Mr. Alfred Dulf-Cooper who recently resigned from the post of First Lord of the Admiralty because of disagreement with the foreign policy of Mr, Neville Chamberlain's Government,' defended himself against the reproach that he belongs to those men in England who advocate a war with Germany.
Experience in human life, states Mr. Duff-Cooper in his article, teaches that nobody in this world can safeguard his existence unless he is prepared to resist force. Between nations the abandonment of resistance to force means self-destruction, Mr, Duff-Cooper then deprecates the effects of the anti-war propaganda prosecuted continuously for the past twenty years whereby great numbers of people in England had been made disposed to accept peace at any price, The horrors of war, says Mr. Duff-Cooper, justify such a policy just as little as a fear of martyrdom justifies the abandonment of one's faith.
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