For Peace

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 20

For Peace

“Our hope of disarmament In Europe is in the League of Nations. The League suffers through the absence of two nations, one in the East and one in the West, Russia and the United States; but both of them will be represented at the Disarmament Conference, The negotiations with Russia must necessarily be difficult from the ; nature of the case itself, but until we . can see in that country progressive dl»armament you can never get rid of the fear that exists in Eastern Europe against so great and powerful a neigh- ■ hour. • .. ... '•While it is not, for us to ask or to advise or to try to cajole—the least , - successful of all—the United States to .get them to-come into-the League of Nations, I do'say without fear of con- : tradiction from any statesman who has had to deal with international pro-, - blems in Europe that every internationol problem in Europe since the ! Treaty of Versailles has been made incomparably more difficult ft Euro-! peans by the absence of America from the League of Nations. “Fundamentally it is a fight fort peace, a spiritual fight, and we have to deal With the things of-the world. What we have to seels that we keep r moving, that we never look back and never go back and admit no check; that we hand on the faith to those thnt i come after us.”—Mr. Stanley Baldwin.