REPLACE ENMITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 7

REPLACE ENMITY.

CRUSADE FOR P£ACE. Active Co-operation of U.S.A. And Britain. SPEECH BY MR. MacDONALD. (United r.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, May 17. Speaking at. a dinner at the Pil-1 griins' Club the Prime Minister, Mr. i MaeDonald, received an ovation as he declared: "It is a historic day, inasmuch as America lias boldly cut her moorings and advanced courageously under full sail into new waters." Continuing, Sir. MaeDonald said: — "Henceforth, by her own declaration, i America will be indifferent to nothing concerning the peace of the world. Some people, who apparently believe in the methods of Lord North, seem to think j I should not have gone to America, but that I should work with my leg tied to a bedstead. 'AVe are not against Germany or German liberation. We do not wish to j interfere in her internal administration j or European status. Again and again we have shown our desire to place her in European relationships consistent with her self-respect, and so citable her to fulfil her destiny by co-operating in European unity and peace. "Mr. Lloyd George has talked about •sitting on eggs as if the Primp Minister should model himself on a clucking hen. The trouble is that the National Government has to sit on eggs it never laid. It wants to lay eggs of its own and produce progeny different from salamanders, serpents and scorpions, i "Wo are striving to replace enmity with peace," said Mr. MaeDonald, "and j to change the face of the world by j active co-opcration with America in: aecordanct with common sense. Why | cannot Britain and America approach i the war debts problem as partners in misfortune, who are facing the world's difficulties together in spite of the trying times? "AVe can rely upon the co-operation of France and Italy, also upon America's disapproval of every policy that threatens European peace. Though we may sail on stormy seas I am confident that in understanding and friendship port can be reached."

ROOSEVELT APPEAL. AMERICAN PEOPLE WON. WASHINGTON, May 17. Mr. Roosevelt's appeal to the nations to renounce aggression and abolish powerful weapons of attack so that they may move together toward peace and prosperity was received with acclamation by Congress, and has won the people of the United States. The President turned expectantly toward Berlin, Tokyo and other important capitafs, on whose reaction depends the success of his effort to lead the world away from war and from' talk of war. He resounded America's approval of Mr. Mac Donald's arms plan. The President's message is viewed in official quarters as striking at the roots of the strife in the Far East, of the open war in South America, and of the foreboding of troublous days in Europe arising from dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles. Mr. Roosevelt's appeal created as much sensation in New York as anywhere. Unofficial comment lays stress upon the Wilsonian flavour of the message, its diplomatic unorthodoxy, its consciousness of power and its keynote of the resumption by America of her share of responsibility in the strifetorn family of nations. What is regarded as one of the greatest features of the President's plan is the possibility of lasting peace between France and Germany by relieving both those nations of the haunting fear of unexpected attack. The President does not make clear his idea of the punishment of a nation which violates its non-aggression pledge.