Evening star., 1940-03-20
Britain 10 Fight
War in Own Way,
Stanley Tells Critics
War Secretary Loshes
Out at NeutruIs Who
Deplore War Conduct
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, March 20.-War Secre-
tary Oliver Stanley bluntly replied
to critics of Britain's war effort in
the United States and other neutral
countries by declaring to luncheon
audience today that 1--WE intend to
fight in our own way and not in
their way
Mr.. Stanley said that the foreign
press had criticized Britain for a
lack of enterprise and initiative.
This is a dangerous lesson for
neutrals to teach" he said, adding
that I'VE are now learning that per-
sons who ignore the rights of neu-
trails" receive their admiration.
Lashes Out at Critics.
Mr.. Stanley, addressing the Ma
tional Defense Society, lashed out
at those who call this, "in language
culled from the ringside, phoney
war"
This is a phrase, said the war
minister, used by people who, after
a good dinner, sit down and urge
two fighters to tear each other to
pieces.
His statement that "a nation
Mk4>h ignores the rights of neutrals"
fyrlV their admiration was inter-
preted by many to mean Britain in
tends to clamp down tighter on the
imports of small nations contiguous
to Germany whose imports from the
United States have swelled since the
war.
Speaking of "Germany's chal
lenge," Mr.. Stanley said that people
across the ocean are thinking "how
are we going to keep out of it, but
they're in it,"
mo one can remain indifferent
to the result of the struggle he
SAID. do they (neutrals) really
think that if we lose, life can go
on as they know it?"
Fighting German Ideals.
IAN ocean," Mr.. Stanley warned,
may be a good barrier to aircraft,
but it's no barrier to ideas"
Mr. Stanley said Britain was
fighting for an end of German
ideals-"those of Attila the Hun"
He said that if Britain had not
gone to war the people in the
United States would have said.
"Why aren't you fighting?"
Today people in the United States
are saying, according to Mr.. STAN
ley, we can't understand the war"
None can remain Indifferent to
the result of the struggle" he said.
They may be lucky. We may fight
their battles for them"
Satisfied With U. S. Relations.
The British government is so
satisfied with relations with the
United States that it is directing
no special questions to America con-
corning the significance of Sumner
Welles' European tour but is rely
ing on their courtesy to keep us in
formed" Foreign Undersecretary
r. A. Butler told the House of Com
mons today.
Replying to a Conservative sug-
gestion that British purchases of
American aircraft be discontinued,
Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood told
the House that negotiations for fur
ther purchases ARE proceeding nor
mally."
Mr.. Butler reiterated the govern
ments determination not to publish
its projected white paper on the pre-
. war negotiations with Soviet Russia
which broke down when the Rus
sian-German accord was reached.
This decision. he said. holds, in spite
of the ending of the Russian-Fin-
niSh war.
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the
Admiralty. assured the House that
very good arrangements exist for
the defense of Scapa Flow, the naval
base in the Orkneys which was raid
ed by German warplanes Saturday.
Mr.. Churchill, who recently made
an inspection of the base, character
tzed as significant and encouraging
"the effort of the enemy to portray
petty, ill-directed raid as an impor-
tant military affair."
The British asserted only one war
ship was damaged in the raid; the
Germans reported three battleships
and one cruiser hit.
Malcolm Macdonald, colonial Sec
retary, said an inquiry had not pro-
duced proof that there were German
spies among the illegal Jewish i'm
migrants entering Palestine, al
though strong suspicion in some
cases bad brought the detention of
suspects.
The government is taking various
steps to suppress illegal immigration,
he said, and some hundreds" have