SUBDUING WAR SPIRIT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 29, 29 October 1928, Page 11

SUBDUING WAR SPIRIT

BRITISH PEOPLE DONE MOST TASK OF ELIMINATING MUTUAL RIVALRIES MR BALDWIN ON THE WORK OF THE LEAGUE Mr. Baldwin is of opinion that no other people have subdued the war spirit more than the British, and declares that the tiger in us ail must be eliminated if the State is to survive. (United Press Association.—By Electric , Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service ) (Rec. October 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 27. “I doubt i£ any people have subdued the war spirit more than the British,” said Mr. Baldwin at a great gathering at the Albert Hall on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the inception of the League of Nations Union. He added that as a result of the work of the League international jurisprudence was being built up to which the strongest nations would have to conform. He must contradict the idea, for which there was no shadow of foundation, that Britain to some extent had abandoned the position of impartiality and conciliation which she had assumed at the time of the Locarno Pact. The policy of the Government was to help to complete the great post-war task of eliminating mutual rivalries and suspicions. Viscount Grey had declared that more than one war had already been averted by recourse to the League of Nations. We had made no new entanglements. There was no change in .. the orientation of our policy. “If you think you are going to defeat things that culminate in hatred, and war without a spiritual flight you are foredoomed to failure,” he said. “The tiger in us all must be eliminated if the State 16 to survive.” Mr. Baldwin did not mention the building of ships in competition with the United States. The King sent a message that in the support of the League only rested our chief hope for the future peace of the world.