INTERNATIONAL: Blood Bath

Early last week Premier Edouard Daladier answered over the radio Adolf Hitler's overtures for peace as delivered before the Reichstag fortnight ago. Accusing the Führer of merely wanting peace now to legalize and consolidate his conquests, the French Premier turned him down.

"We have taken up arms against aggression," said M. Daladier. "We will lay them down only when we have certain guarantees of security which may not be put in doubt every six months. . . . What in fact does the latest speech before the Reichstag amount to? This: I destroyed...

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