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VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT FARMVIU* PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938
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Pitt Rolls Up Big Vote
For 1938 Farm Program
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Polls Biggest Tobacco
Vote In State of North
Carolina.
Pitt county farmers, along with
those of others in the state and else
where in the agricultural sections,
dispelled all doubts Saturday that
they wanted compulsary crop con
trol.
Farmers of this county, in polling
an even 7,300 ballots in favor of con
trolled tobacco production, according
to unofficial figures, led the state in
the number of votes cast favorably in
the referendum. Only 62 fanners
voted against the proposal. Although
there are not as many cotton farmers
in the county as there are tobacco
farmers, those in the county voted
just as big a percentage for control
as did the tobacco farmers. The vote
in the cotton referendum was 4,249 to
35. In both referenda the percentage
of favorable votes was 99.29.
With Pitt the largest tobacco pro
ducing county in the world, the big
majority is all the more important.
There was no doubt but that Pitt
county farmers would favor the 1938
farm program, but the unusually big
vote surprised even the most optimis
tic. The county agent's office had
placed its maximum estimate at 7,000
votes in the tobacco referenda and 3,
000 in the cotton vote. The results
do not include ballots which were
challenged and, if held legitimate,
will swell the total.
The vote was not close in a single
Pitt township, but the distinction of
supporting the program 100 per cent
went to Pactolus, where 353 votes
were cast in favor of controlled to
bacco and 244 for controlled cotton
and not a single ballot against either.
New Firm Now
Open For Business
C. H. Joyner, Mgr.
Headers will note in this issue an
advertisement announcing the open
ing of the Western Auto Associate
Store, home owned, with C. Hubert
Joyner as manager.
Mr. Joyner, a native of Farmville,
and Veil known throughout the coun- j
ty, moved his residence here from
Greenville this week and is receiving
a cordial "welcome home" from
friends.
A huge stock of merchandise of
great variety, high grade and low
prices, has been placed in attractive
display this week in the store for
merly occupied by Young Co., and is
ready for business.
The slogan "Satisfaction or Money
Back" has been adopted .by this com
pany and Manager Joyner invites the
community to pay this up-to-date
store a visit.
I State D. A. R.'s Give
I Scrapbook Honors to
Major May Chapter
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Plans for a State organization of
Junior D. A. R. dobs and a special
news sheet were laid and scrapbook
I honors announced as the Daughters
I of the American Revolution closed
their three-day Convention held in
Raleigh last week.
Mrs. Eva D. Barnett of Asheville,
I chairman of the historical scrapbook
I committee, announced first, second
and third prizes awarded as follows:
Mrs. B S. Sheppard of Major Ben
I jamin May Chapter, Farmville; Miss
I Nina M. Greenlee of Greenlee Chap
I ter, Old Ford; Mrs. J. B. Hunter of
Battle of Charlotte chapter, Charlotte.
The Daughters elected officers,
I held memorial services for members
I who died during the last year and
I beard doee to a score of reports and
patriotic speech* during the conven
tion. ? ?
I Miss Virginia Horns of Wadesboro
I was atocted recording secretary; Mrs.
I J. SL Welborn of High Point was
I named legirtrar; and Mrs. Preston
B. Wilkes, Jr., of Charlotte was elect
I ad Iftedatek Other officers, includ
I ing State regent Mrs. Eugene N. Da
I vis, are serving three-year terms and
did not come up for election this term.
Members of the D. A. R. were en
I tsrtained at a tea by Mrs. Clyde R.
I Hoey at the mansion daring the con
tnurcn Attendancc
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Hitler To Speak
To World Friday
Expected to Reveal In
tentions of Reich in Re
gard to Czechoslovakia
Berlin, March 16. ? Reichs-fuehrer
Adolf Hitler, welcomed back to Ber
lin in a malestrom of hysterical ac
claim and "heils" swelling from 2,
600,000 throats, tonight ordered the
Reichstag into special session Friday,
when he will tell the world of his am
bitions regarding Czechoslovakia. ~
| Flush with the success of hts bold
| annexation of Austria as a German
province without the firing of a sin
gle shot, Der Fuehrer was eager to
tell the world of his latest plans.
The government said his Friday
speech, at 8 p. m. <2 p. m. E. S. T.),
will contain "am important foreign
political declaration." The United
Press, was informed reliably that it
would deal primarily with Czechoslo-|
vakia, whose*3,500,000 German inhab
itants Hitler has sworn to "protect"
by the might of hi sarmies if neces
sary.
Political quarters believed that
Hitler's swift annexation of Austria
would be followed by another light
ning-like settlement of the Czechoslo
vakia^ question, but with different
methods.
Increased French anger against
Fascism and Nazism and the speeding
up of Britain's rearmament program
have convinced Nazi party leaders
that quick action is necessary and
they are urging the Reich to support
strongly the Czech German minority
movement.
Hitler, it was said, apparently is!
not contemplating annexation or mil-}
itary action against Czechoslovakia |
but merely autonomy for the 3,500,000
so-called Sudeten Germans of Bo
hemia, now encircled on three sides,
by German guns.
The new dedmands of Konrad Hen
lein, German Nazi leader in Czecho
slovakia, for recognition of his par
ty were said to have approval of Hit
ler.
Der Fuehrer is expected to describe
the entire Sudeten background in his
Reichstag speech.
He also will tell his people of his
bloodless anexation of Austria, the
land of his birth, the Spanish situa
tion that is working up a climax with
prospects of a Fascist victory atti
tude toward Germany and the role
Premier Benito Mussolini of^ Italy
played in the Austrian drisis.
Like Mussolini's speech today in
Rome, Hitler probably will reaffirm
the silidity of the Rome-Berlin axis
and publicly proclaim that German's
newly-extended frontier reach" south j
to Italy's Brenner Pass and no fur-i
?ther.
Atefr the deafening acclaim of a
Germany on hiliday to greet the re
turning conqueror had died down,
Hitler appeared on the small balcony
o fthe Chancellory at 8 p. m. and hiB
i face showing the strain of the last
five days, spoke briefly.
"German unity which has been re
stored in the past days never again
will be destroyed," he said.
"Germany has become a greater
Germany and will remain that; and
the German nation, in its entirety,
will see to it. from the west to the
east and from the south to this city."
His two sentences of greeting were
followed by two hours of wild.cheer-]
ing which drew him back into the
balcony several times with his arm
thrown up in the Nazi'salute.
His speedy return after lour days
in Austria was precipitated by ad
ditional important decisions expected
to be made by the cabinet tonight.
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WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the amount of money
I in circulation in the U. S.?
I 2. What twelve presidents are soon
to appear on stamps for (he first
time?
3. Does the Federal government
bear all expense of relief work?
4. How much is it costing Great
^fcfitain to rearm?
5. How many clear channels are
available forradi? broadcasting?
6. How many passengers were
: carried by Amierican air lines in
19377 .!v?
7. How ranch is Great Britain
spending for her Navy?
8. How mapy people are burned
I Jto Seath in the U. S. in a year? .
fc Have all War veterans received
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Chinese Forces
Repulse Or Step
Japanese Dells
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Shanghai, March 16. ? Chinese
guerrilla raids and smashing counter
offensive attacks appeared today to
have pushed the Japanese hack in,
several sectors and stopped them in
the others.
From Shansi province, which the
Japanese overran in a big offensive
a week ago, came reports that the
Chinese had'recaptured Linfen and
were making strong attacks on Cha
ocheng and Kwohsien. These cities
are in the southern part of the pro
vince.
i In northwest Shansi, the Chinese
said they were sweeping through a
triangular area between Koku, Pao
[teh and Kolan, where desperately re
sisting Japanese were trying to hold
| their ground.
Chinese successors in the Koku
sector were said to have eliminated
danger of the Japanese forging across
the Yellow River there and invading
Shensi province to the west
The Chinese reported had-to-hand
fighting along the Tientsin - Pukow
Railway some 60 miles north of Su
chow, where the Japanese.have start
ed a new offensive against the
Lunghai Railway. This offensive is
being supported by heavy artillery
and plane bombardments and, ac
cording to the Japanese, has to some
extent dislodged the Chinese from
their fixed defense lines in southern
Shantung province.
Flanking attacks along the Yi
river farther east were said to have
given the Chinese other victories.
They were reported to be threatening
Kokow, 30 miles north of Lini.
Japanese naval officers reported
shooting down two Chinese bombing
planes after a 60-mile pursuit. *The
Chinese fliers tried to bail out but
were machine-gunned in the air.
Six Chinese planes raided the Jap
anese airfield outside Hangchow but
no report on damage was available.
The Japanese said there was no dam
age.
Launch Plans j
I For Gymnasium
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Students and Citizens
Have Supper and Dis
cuss Ways and Means.
On Tuesday the students and fac
ulty members of the Farmville graded
school honored^ members of the Ro
tary Club, grade mothers, officers of
the Parent-Teacher Association and
the Board of Education at a barbecue
supper.
Long tables, set up in the main cor
ridor of the school building, held
trays of barbecue, slaw, baked pota
toes, corn sticks, pickles and bottles
| of pepsi-cola. Places were laid for
three hundred. Rev. D. A. Clarke
gave the invocation.
Immediately following the supper,
guests gathered in the auditorium,
where MaA gnotCT president of the
Jumof class, gave, on behalf of the
students and faculty, a hearty wel
come, to. which Irving Morgan, Jr.,
president of the Rotary Club, re
sponded.
Musical selections were rendered
by the high school band, directed by
M. P. Burt, after which D. H. Conley,
superintendent of Pitt county schools,
discussed the desirability of .having a
gymnasium and agricultural building
erected in Farmville, and announced
that' citizens of Farmville township
would be given the opportunity to
vote soon on the issuance of bands
for this purpose.
J!i? Satterfield, president of the
Senior class and toastmaster of the
occasion, introduced Blanche Bryan,
Junior, who reviewed "My Imaginary
Trip to California." Music by the
Glee Club, the direction of M?
Daisy H. Smith, and with accompani
ment by Mrs. Haywood ftnith, con
cluded the program of a most delight
Miming.
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Cooperation of Public
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Fire Chitf Haywood Smith requests
that citizens here observe the rules
The lack'of cooperation on the part
of citizens in this cooimection, en
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JAPS CURB FISHING
ANOTHER TRADE PACT ] -M
COURT REVERSES ITSELF
THREE NAVAL PROBLEMS
U. S. CLAIMS ISLANDS
G. O. P. MAKES PLANS
TO GAIN IN HOUSE
ROOSEVELT'S VIEWS
OBJECTIVES THE SAME
FOUR NEW STAMPS
(Hugo S. Sims, Washington Corres
pondent.)
The amicable settlement of the sit
uation in Alaskan waters where Jap
anese salmon Ashing operations
threatened to instigate an intense
competition which might exhaust the
salmon supply, illustrates the desire
of the Japanese Government at this
time to "get along" with the United
States. The Japanese have been very
active in the Bristol Bay area where
the annual value of the salmon catch
is more than $40,000,000. While Alas
kan fishermen have for years used
?nly small boats and gear, co-operat
ing with the Bureau of Fisheries in its
conservation program, the Japanese
have used mile-long nets 30 miles
off shore to catch salmon returning
to the Alaskan rivers. The Alaskans
contend that fish spawned in terri
torial waters are American property
and the possibility existed of a violent
clash. Also it should be notedr that
Pacific coast labor circles authorized
a general Japanese boycott but held
it up pending the outcome of nego
tiations.
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Under the trade agreement between
the United States and Czechoslovakia
signed last week, this country grants
tariff benefits on 63 items, imports
of which in 1937 totalled $19,552,000,
or 65 per cent of the imports from
Czechoslovakia. In return, tariff and
import concessions were granted on
$30,000,000 worth of exports on the
basis of 1936. The State Department
in reference to the concessions by
Czechoslovakia, says "Probably no
other country has gone so far in a
trade agreemnt with the United
States in attempting to open the way
for an expansion of trade by the re*
moval of relaxation of special con
trols on imports other tlum duties."
A sharp controversy was raised in
this country over a possible conces
sion on shoes which is thp' most im
portant of Czechoslovakia exports.
Tariff reductions, ranging up to fifty
per cent, where made, with a protec
tive clause giving the United States j
the right, after consultation, to in
crease rates if sales in this country
increase above 1.25 per cent of our
domestic production for a five-year
period. Officials point out that the
agreement makes possible an inoreape
of about 650,000 pairs of shoes over
last year's imports of 4,800,000 pairs.
The Department points- out that
American production of all types
amounted to 410,000,000 pairs of
shoes in 1937. The agreement as
sures domestic producers of 99 per
cent of the market in this country.
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[Many of the concessions to this
I intry were, in the form of relax
ons of import permits and ex
ftnge control regulations which have
I sen more restrictive than import
ties." These benefits affect items
istituting 76:7 per cept of Czech
Bo valti an imports in .1986 from .the
ited States.
Karly this week 3,600 officers and
?XX) men aboard 160 surface ships
flthe United States fleetl&gin a.six
flaks' manoeuver in a theatre of ope
ions which will extend from the
?utians Island and Alaska to Ha
ii and the West Coast of the United
,tes. Some 500 planes will par
Bpate in the exercises designed to
nish ffeet training and test ma
ials under varying conditions of
I and weather.
?he manoeuvers will be divided in
Btb*ee big war problms. In one,
Vhite Fleet, with heavy cruisers
giant sky bombing patrols, will
md a coast-line against the Black
at, a powerful dreadnaught, force,
udmg, battleships, aircraft car
b and destroyers. In the second,
awerful Blpe Fleet will attack the
raiian area which will be defended
|5r a Red .Fleet of submarines, sky
patrols and, fast craft. The, third; in
volves an attack on the- West Coast by
the Purple fleet, a powerful overseas
armada fTomt u^l AiwiBawa to San
Diego. A Green, fleet, composed of
fast-moving heavy cruisers, ne?A)j|
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IMAMs
Caused Third ef
Deaths in 1937
Of 1,362 Deaths in Coun
ty Last Year, 524 At
tributed to Diseases of
Heart
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Raleigh, March 16. ? More than
one out of every three deaths in
Wake County last year was caused
by heart disease or related ailments,
County Health Officer A. C. Bulla
reported yesterday in his statistics
resumed of 1987.
Dr. Bulla said that heart disease
accounted for 228 out of 1,362 deaths,
or almost exactly one sixth of the
tootal amount.
In comparison with the ravages of
heart diseases accidental deaths were
almost insignificant during the year,
the health officer's report showed.
Automobile accidents accounted for 43
deaths and all other typos of acci
dents brought the accidental death to
only 68?less than one-sevfenth of the
heart disease total.
Pneumonia ranked second on the
list of death causes. Its total of 177
was well above the 67 deaths attrib
uted to tuberculosis, the disease once
known as "The Great White Plague"
and for which an annual preventive
campaign is still waged. "I think we
are about to put some - emphasis on
neglected points," Dr. Bulla said, in
reference to the medical profession's
recent declaration of war on pneu
monia.
Wake County physicians attributed
only nine deaths last year to senility
(old age), and'directly blamed syph
ilis for only seven deaths. "Syphjflis
probably figured in many more
deaths," Dr. Bulla commented, "but
there is some hesitancy about giving
it as the direct cause* ; ?
Lowly indigestion was given as the
cause for five deaths, epilepsy, 18
deaths, exhaustion, 12 deaths, pella- .
gra, eight, poisoning, 10. Influenza
was given as the direct cause for five
deaths.
There were also 16 homicidps and
nine suicides.
The death list was divided as fol
lows: Raleigh, 864 (610 white and 864
Negro);' rest of Wake County, 498
(256 white and 248 Negro).
Offsetting the 1,862 deaths were
1,996 live births" In the county. Of
the number 884 (676 white- and 308
Negro) were in Raleigh. The 1412
livebirths in the rest of the county
were 602 white and 610 Negro.
Of the 884 live births in Raleigh,
618 of the babies were delivered in
hospitals.
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R. C. Farm tacM)
Reflect Increase
State Only One of, South
Atlantic Group Show
ing Rise In January.
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Raleigh, March 16. ? North Caro
lina was the only South Atlantic
state to record an increase in receipts
from farm marketing*} during Jan
uary, Julian Mann, extension statis
tician at State College, declared yes
terday.
Larger marketings of tobacco and
cotton in this State more than off?
set the lower prices prevalent in other
statps, Mann pointed out
Smaller government payments,,com
pared jwith January, 1937, accentuat
ed the declines in income &nd, result
ed-in a 17 per cent decrease In totll .
receipts from sales" and from govern
ment payments for the South Atlan
tic region.
During the first month of the new
year, North Carolina farmery receiv
ed *7,491,000 for their crops and *1,
month in 1937, they receiv^^566,
Government payments which boost
ed the North Carolina firm incdin#
ljy *882,000 in January, 1987, dropped
to *55,000 in the same month this
'"Se total fan ^income for North!
Carolina including receipts from
crops, livestock, livestock products,
and government payments amounted
to |9^17?000 during; the January dust
past. During the same period in 1937,
the figure was $8,8^4,(k)0.- n
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Politic* will pick up in this coun
try in a few months and until the
Congressional elections are over it
will be almost 'impossible to got a
sensible, mbn-partisan discussion of
any isjue.
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Aviation Factor :
in Farm Retail
Aerial Maps of Farms!
Found to Be Accurate
: in Checking on Produc
tion.
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Washington, March 16. ? Aviators
purring through the sky at great
heights fashioned tools which will be
used to enforce the new farm pro
gram. .
Many a county agent will be armed
for his enforcement task with a bird s
eye view of every farm in his countyl
?showing fields, furrows and forest.
Great maps, fitted toegther like a
patch-work quilt from hundreds of
aerial photographers, give an accu
rate picture, officiali said today, of|
the size of a farmer's fields, and what
they were planted to. I
Thus, an innocent mistake or a
malicious error in a fanner's report
On his "normal" production can be
County control committees will use
the maps in deciding the quota of
each "soil-depleting" crop which a
farmer will be allowed to plant under
the farm program.
On the maps, which now portray
about one-fourth of the nation's farm
land, Parmer Jones' house and barn
are tiny blocks the size of an apple
seed, but th dark pastures, the even
rows of corn, the turned furrows of
plowed land and the brushy mass of
woodland each can be picked out
Equally important to the farm pro-J
gram administrators is the maps'
value in showing the fanner the
Btrength and weakness of his land.
On the flyerte may, land which has
lost its rich top-soil shows up light
in shading, and bad erosion spots
stand out like a pussack in a human
X-ray.
In some areas, the soil conserva
tion service has gone further. Using
sky-made maps as a guide,. soU ex
perts have charted the drainage slope
and soil type of every care in certain
counties. From these maps, a'fanner
ffln tpll what land Will best carry cer
tain crops*what land should like fal
low, and what slopes are too steep
to justify the ripk'of erosion caused
by filing them. ,
The commercial fyers^a^d 'camera
men'who take the government's map
pictures can fly only about two hours
a day?at midday. Then the sun does
not cast deceptive shadows on the
landscape. Weather fe important,,
too, and they figure on only 50 flying
days in a year, ?. ?
Still, farm officials say aenal map
ping is 50 per cent cheaper for the
government than surveying 4he same
area by acre on foot.
Bocaqae of their high altitudes, the
fljjers must wear oxygen tanks for
breathing.; With a heavy camera
swinging lens-down from the bottom
ojf the plane, the two men ride up to
about 20,000 feet above sea leveL
Then they level off and strike out
across the sky on a straight line,
drawn in advance on a road map.
Every three or four miles, the pho
tographer dicks off a picture.' The
picture will show six square miles of
farm land. ^
As long as the right kind of light
lasts; they course up and down the
sky in pallid routes mapped off
two miles apart across the area. In
a day, they will cover from 600 to
1.000 ttgiye milM-.
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Britain Puts Peace Issue
fe Faces threats of Strife
London Notifies Berlin
She Expects Nazis to
Keep Hands Off Little
Czechoslovakia.
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London, March 16. ? Britain today
thrust the issue of peace , in Europe
squarely before Reichfuehrer Adolf
Hitler.
She and France particularly were
active in a sudden wave of war fears
that involved most countries of Eu
rope.
There was a crisis in the Spanish
situation, tension between Poland and
Lithuania, fresh alarm in Czechcslo
vakia, while in Italy Premier Benito
Mussolini declared that Germany wa*'
right in taking Austria.
Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali
fax, in a vigorous statement in the
House of Lords, called on Germany
to respect assurances to Czechoslova
kia that Austro-German union was
not aimed at her.
"We naturally expect German gov
ernment to obey them," he declared,
"and if indeed they desire to see peace
maintained?as I earnestly hope they
do?there is no quarter in Europe in
which it is more vital that undertak
ings should scruplously be respected-"
A Polish-Lithuanian border inci
dent suddenly added new danger in a
situation already tense over Ger
many's next move in Central Europe
and the growing possiblity of Italo
German domination in Spain through
a victory of the Insurgents in the 20
month* civil war. v
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France,'alarmed by the presence of
Italians and Germans in Spain, ap
pealed to Britain for joint action to
seek a Spanish armistice and won a
British promise of concerted naval ac
tion should French" communications
with North Africa be threatened.
The price of the pledge was contin
ued French non-intervention in the
Spanish conflict.
Excited by the possibility of a Ger
man move* against her ally, Czecho
slovakia, France also had sought
British aid in event of action by Hit
ler to "liberate" the 3,500,0U0 Ger
mans in the war-created republic.
Soviet. Russia .reaffirmed' her
pledge of armed aid to Czechoslova
kia, her ally as well, in case of ag
gression.
liitler returned to Berlin for a con
queror's welcome after his absorp
tion of his native land intojthe Ger
man nation and summoned the Reich
stag, his sounding board for impor
tant pronouncements, to meet Friday .
to receive "a declaration" by the gov
ernment. v ?'
Premier Benito Mussolini -assured
Ma people Germany's lightning-move
ment to the Austro-Germari border in
the absorption of Austria constituted
no threat to Italy.
But, in what some interpreted as a
warning to Hitler, II Duce declared
Pan-Germanism would not cross the
Brenner Pass.
In Spain, a desperate government
army, slowed up the insurgent drive
toward the Mediterranean. A tense
Barcelona assured the world it was
calm while in Madrid new "urgent"
tribunals began functioning to crush
spies, traitors and defeatists.
In London, following a cabinet
meeting in which the foreign situa
tion was . reviewed an opposition an
gered by Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain's refusal to declare open
ly the government's policy in the Eu
ropean crisis forced a foreign af
fairs debate.
Clement R. Attlee, Laborite and
leader of the official oppcsition, drew
the cheers of his backers as he opened
the debate with the question:
"Does anyone doubt that the as
sistance of Hitler inttfee conquest of*
Spain is part of the price for Musso
lini's betrayal of Austria?"
Chamberlain,, in reply, accused the
Laborite of using "hard, provocative
words." 4 : -
"It is tempting to reply in kind,"
hb said" . ..but the international
sittiatiOn is so grave I have no heart
for interchanges across this table or
reproaches and accusations of betray
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Attlee had asked: "What will be
the worth of Gibraltar if the shores
Of North Africr, and Spain are held
by a hostUe power?"
The Prime Minister pointed out
that foreign forces were fighting on
both'sides* in Spaip. v.- JgigBfij. ?.&"'! v."