PROBLEMS OF ARMS REDUCTION
MR BALDWIN'S HOPES WAR NOT INEVITABLE IBKIYISU urPKIM. VIHKI.F.HS.I RUGBY, February 8. During discussion on Imperial affairs in the House of Commons Mr Stanley Baldwin described the debate as complementary to the disarmament debate. He said there were immense difficulties in securing a disarmament agreement and warned members against lighthearted talk of economic blockades or budgetary limitations on armaments. He did not agree that war was inevitable. The only surviving cause for war was that boundaries were : isatisfactory now or would be in the future, and changes in them were a work proper to the League of Nations. If the disarmament efforts succeeded there would be agreed limits up to which all countries could arm, and it would be their duty to make themselves as competent as possible up to that limit, which was what every nation must do if it was to make itself fit to be a partner and colleague of other nations.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 13
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