AIMS AT PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 7

AIMS AT PEACE.

BRITAIN'S NAVY. Mac Donald Explains Matter To U.S.A. BLUNT SPEAKING. (Australian and X.Z. Tress Association.) NEW YORK, October 13. The British Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, addressed the Council of Foreign Relations on Friday evening. He made an appeal to mankind to enthrone peace over the world. Speaking with marked earnestness about his historic meeting with the President. Mr. Hoover, Sir. Mac Donald, warned his hearers that much remained to be done before the peoples of all the nations would relinquish military security for political security. He again emphasised the fact that his negotiations with the United States had been entirely in the open, and took occasion to rebuke the few people who had been alleging that an Anglo-American alliance had been entered into at Washington. Mr. Mac Donald spoke bluntly nt times, and as his theme was developed the enthusiasm of his distinguished audience—one of the largest dinner gatherings in the history of NewYork—mounted steadily. Speaking of agreements for peace, Mr. Mac Donald said: "This is a problem of statesmanship. On the one hand you get your moral disarmament and sentiment is with you. Resolutions that read fair and sound well are carricd unanimously, but the moment the poor statesman starts to apply them for the purpose of transferring the mentalities of the people from a mentality of military security to a mentality of political security then he is beset by a thousand and one exceedingly intricate problems." Mr. Mac Donald asked the people of America to show patience while Britain "changed the furniture of her mind on sea armament." Britain's Navy was Britain herself. The sea was Britain's security and her safety. Therefore they would understand how hard it was to get the people of Britain to feel secure if their naval arm was limited in any way. He put that before them, not as his last word, but as a plea for patience and good will. As America would show that patience so she would contribute to good will. The spirit of the men w 7 ho were coming together was not to divide the world into groups, but to help the world to come to a general agreement. PREMIER'S 63rd BIRTHDAY. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) NEW YORK, October 13. Mr. Mac Donald celebrated his 03rd birthday yesterday in a quiet fashion. Messages of congratulation poured in upon him. The Prime Minister conversed with members of his family in London over the telephone. He received a scroll from a delegation c-f Protestant clergymen :n appreciation of his peace efforts. In response, Mr. Mac Donald said in last analysis it would be the Church that would support their efforts forworld peace more than any group. There would be plenty of opposition, but they would win through.