"The excuse given by the German high command is that they were bombing military objectives, but whatever their intention may have been, the House will note the facts and know that responsibility for consequences must rest upon the authors, "In this grim struggle minor incidents of third kind are of little m-portance,"
Frequent cheers interspersed the Prime Minister's address. Ministers cheered when he said the Government could not be "hustled into adventures." A loud burst of applause came at the conclusion of his speech.
Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, former Secretary of State for War, asked whether, in their strategic diplomacy and their total efforts, the Allies were doing everything to achieve their elms.
The war began with two swift strokes, he said. Poland was annihilated and German commerce was swept from the seas, Since then Germany had been inactive on land and the Allies had applied a blockade.
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