PEACE PROGRAMME
Nobel Prizeman’s Nine Points DR. BUTLER’S IDEALS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Rec. December 13, 6.45 p.m.) New York, December 12. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, in a radio address accepting the Nobel peace prize, presented a nine-point world peace programme. The principal items of the programme are the abolition of compulsory military training; discarding battleships, destroyers and other fighting craft and the maintenance only of a peace navy, and the development with the League of Nations of a plan for safeguarding the peoples of the Orient. Dr. Butler advocated for the United States the substitution of a department of national defence for the present war and navy departments and other military branches of government. ’
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 11
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115PEACE PROGRAMME Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 11
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