Evening star., 1938-11-13
British Indignation
Rises Over Reith' 5
Attacks on Jews
Chamberlain Cabinets
Faith in Peace o..
Efforts Shoken.
b the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 12-Public indig-
nation over Germany's new on
slaught against Jews has quickened
Britain's drive for rearmament and
pushed Prime Minister Chamber
lain's appeasement goal still further
away.
Amid widespread condemnation of
the Nazi campaign came evidence
from one of the Premier's own min
listers that it had shaken the faith
of at least part of his cabinet in
his efforts to obtain lasting FRIEND
ship with Reichs- Chancellor Hitler.
Addressing regional meeting Of
the National Labor Council today,
Earl de la War;, in the cabinet as
president of the Board of Educa-
ton, said that instead OF encourag-
ing hopes for appeasement, events
on the continent during the last few
days have served to add certainty to
the conviction that we live in q
world in which those who desire to
defend the decencies of life must
be strong both in arms and in moral
purpose"
Fight for Existence Seen.
De la War; asserted Britain faced
the possibility of a fight "for her
very existence" and that that
struggle may be resolved in terms
of diplomacy or in terms of war"
I'VE hope it will be the former"
he said, "but the challenge goes
even deeper than the power of pol
itics. 1t forces onto the defensive
the whole of the ideas on which
civilization has built itself up over
centuries since the days of the foun-
dation of Christianity"
"Appeasenent and strength" he
said, ARE the twin foundations of
the national governments policy"
Then he added significantly:
If we emphasize the second at
the moment it is only because with
out strength the policy of appease-
ment becomes merely a more pleas
ing name for what must be in fact
a policy of surrender"
High churchmen, from the Arch
bishop of Canterbury down, deplored
the treatment of Jews and its effect
on Britain's offer of friendship to
Germany.
Strain on Frienship.
The archbishop in letter to the
Times asserted
Would that the rulers of the
Reich could realize that such ex-
cesses of hatred and malice put
upon the friendship which we are
ready to offer them an almost in
tolerable strain"
More outspoken was the Bishop
Of Durham, DR.. Hensley Henson.
He told a diocesan conference that
1T ought to be made clear to Herr
Hitler and his colleagues that if they
do sincerely desire the friendship
Of this country they must cease to
insult our faith and cease to per-
secute our fellow-believers."
He declared that Hitler processes
a desire for friendly relations with
Great Britain, but he does not ap-
pear to realize the most formidable
hindrance to the. relations arises
from a feeling of moral reAugnapce
which his racial and religious policy
creates in British minds
Attacks Nation Wide.
From one end of the country to
the other came attacks on Ger
many.
Mrs. Walter Elliott, wife of the
British minister of health, herself
active in politics until her mar
raige in 1894, said at London re-
oeption:
1T is impossible to read of hap
penings Of the last three or four
days in Central Europe without feel
ing we must be back again in the
Middle Ages.
TT is appalling, frightening, ter
rifying that. the whole spiritual
thought of the world should be
subjected to this doctrine Of force"