Defeat of Mentality That Tortures Inoffensive Cited As War Aim by Chamberlain

Listing the British Government’s war and peace aims, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said in a broadcast tonight:

“Our war aim can be stated very shortly. It is to defeat our enemy and by that I do not merely mean the defeat of that enemy’s military forces, I mean the defeat of that aggressive, bullying mentality which seeks continually to dominate other peoples by force, which finds brutal satisfaction in the persecution and torture of inoffensive citizens and, which, in the name of interests of state, justifies repudiation of its own pledged word whenever it finds it convenient.”

In outlining the Government’s peace aims, Chamberlain envisioned a Europe in which “each country would have the unfettered right to choose its own form of internal government, so long as that government did not pursue an external policy injurious to its neighbors.”