JOINT ACTION URGED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 18, 2 November 1935, Page 5

JOINT ACTION URGED.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE AT SEA.

LEAGUE MUST NOT BE AFRAID

LONDON, October 31

Speaking at a League meeting in the Albert Hall, Viscount Cecil of Clietwood advocated joint action to sever communications between Italy and Abyssinia. He believed the British Fleet was strong enough, hut did not advocate lone action. If France were willing to join, superiority on the sea could not be resisted by Italy. Sir Austen Chamberlain said: “If the question were put, would you, as a last resort, adopt military sanctions?’ I think you would be bound to say that the League, as the policeman of the world, must not be afraid.”

ISOLATION IMPOSSIBLE.

ARMOURED PEACE A PERIL WARNING BY MR BALDWIN. LONDON, October 31. “Of’all the currents of British policy over half a century none has run more truly or more steadily than friendship for Italy,” said Mr Stanley Baldwin in a speech at a meeting cf the Peace Society in London. Dealing with the suggested policy of isolation, the Prime Minister said: “I am told that the broils of other nations are not ours. Does anyone think that war between great nations can be limited without someone to pull them up when they go over the touchline, •and that meanwhile we can trade profitably and happily with both belligerents alike on prosperous neutrality? Modern war between any two great Powers is like one of the great convulsions of nature in the early geological ages. The map of the world has to be re-drawn at the end. “We want mo armoured' peace, but unless we are careful it is all the peace Ave shall have.”