Evening star., 1939-09-20
Hitler Threats Won't Stop A||ies>
Chamberlain Informs Commons;
Reich> Soviet Agree to Split Poles
Will Not Rush Into
Action, However,
He Declares
Nv the Associated Press.

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Dy the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 20.-Prime Min
lister Chamberlain declared today
that no threats could deter Britain
and her allies from achieving their
war aims, but that what we will
not do is to rush into adventures
that offer little prospect of success"
With the obvious purpose of allay-
Ing public anxiety as to whether the
western allies were striking vigor-
ously enough against Germany. Mr..
Chamberlain declared in the House
OF Commons:
There is no sacrifice from which
we will shrink. There is no opera
ton we will not undertake provided
our responsible advisers, our allies
and we ourselves are convinced that
it will make an appropriate contri-
button to victory"
Purpose "to Redeem Europe"
Replying to Adolf Hitler's Danzig
speech yesterday, Mr.. Chamberlain
said Britains general war purpose
was to redeem Europe from the
perpetual fear of German aggression
and enable the peoples of Europe to
preserve their independence and lib
critics" He added that mo threats
will deter us or our French allies
from this purpose"
He declared against uncertain ad-
ventures calculated to impair our
resources and to postpone ultimate
victory"
"One lesson which military his
tory teaches is that that road leads
to disaster he said.
Strategy, Mr. Chamberlain went
on, is 1.-The art of concentrating de-
cisive force at the decisive point at
the decisive moment"
No Hint of Strategy.
He said he would mot hazard a
guess at this stage of the war as to
when or where the decisive force will
be assembled or when the decisive
moment will arrive" He said this
must depend upon events and added:
The scale of our preparations and
the fact already announced that
We are basing them on the assump-
ton that duration of the war may
be at least three years insures that
our strength will increase progress
sively to meet whatever may come"
Herr Hitler says much in his
speech about the humane methods
with which he has waged war Mr..
Chamberlain continued.
II can only say that methods are
not made humane by calling them
so and that accounts of German
bombing of open towns and ma
chine-gunning of refugees have
shocked the whole world"
139 Lives Lost in Sea War.
It was the Prime Minister'S third
weekly report on the conflict. He
announced that the government
calculated 139 British and neutral
lives had been lost so far from sub
marine attacks, excluding the sink
ing of the aircraft carrier Courag-
locus, and that an additional "A per-
sons were reported missing. The
admiralty reported 578 missing from
the Courageous.
Mr.. Chamberlain told the House
'it is still too early TO pronounce any
final verdict" on what he termed
Soviet Russia's cynical attack on
Poland.
He also declared Hitler's speech
''does not change the situation with
which we are confronted"
With Soviet Ambassador Ivan
MaiSky leaning forward from the
gallery, Mr. Chamberlain declared
that for Poland, the unhappy vic
tim" of Russia's attack, the result
has been a tragedy of the grimmest
character"
Obligations Not Forgotten"
Mr. Chamberlain said that despite
the fact that Britain and France
had been unable to save Poland
from defeat they have assured her
that they have not forgotten their
obligations to her nor weakened in
their determination to carry on the
struggle
He then declared the navy's anti
submarine campaign in two weeks
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were accomplished "over much
longer periods in the last war and
added that already six or seven
submarines have paid the full
penalty"
In some cases, the Prime Minister
said, crews of U-boats have been
captured
Mr.. Chamberlain asserted "it is
already clear that the navy mer-
chant marine will be able to main
tain essential supplies of raw ma
terials and food for this country
Dealing with Hitler's speech, Mr..
Chamberlain said "misstatements
of fact" included Hitler's declara-
ton that France agreed to Italian
mediation while Britain refused it.
The Prime Minister said a new
white paper would be issued tomor-
row 80 that public opinion may
have no difficulty in forming its
final judgments.
The British government did not
geek this war, but their hopes were
(See LONDON, Page A-4)