"Therefore," Mr. Chamberlain continued, "if we wish to protect our civilian population in wartime, we must prepare the necessary organization in peacetime. Moreover, we must train it during peace, for there will be no time to train after war has started.
"Thus, the scheme is just one of common prudence and just as necessary for our safety as battleships, guns and planes, though not meaning, any more than they do, that war is bound to come soon, or even at all."
Mr. Chamberlain expressed the hope that all would read the hand-on defence carefully, "for it a message which concern: us all, You will find in it a deseription of many forms of s for safety assistance to the public in the event of war."
The Prime Minister invited an who were not yet engaged in essential work to choose one of these services for which they were fitted, and to undertake the necessary ira" ing forthwith,
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