POSSIBILITY OF WAR.
LORD M'NEILL'S OPINION
(BT CABLE—PtESS ASSOCIATIOK—COPTBIGBT.I (AUSTRALIAN- AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, November 4.
Lord McNeill. in his first speech since his promotion to Cabinet rank, said that he was conscious of difficulty in following Viscount Cecil, of whom he was a sincere admirer, but he believed that Britons of all parties were quite as convinced as Viscount Cecil of the necessity for the limitation or armaments by international agreement. "Two years' experience in the Treasury has convinced me of the stupendous relief for taxpayers and the stimulus to trade that can be provided » we are able to divert to productive channels the money now necessarily spent on armaments. Britaiu has already made large reductions, but war would not be impossible, even if the world's armaments were reduced to vanishing point, so long as the skill, materials and the basis of production of weapons existed. Peace must he endangered unless disarmament is bofli moral and material."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 9
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