WAY TO PREVENT WAR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 11

WAY TO PREVENT WAR

Alliance Between Britain and United States NEW MOVEMENT’S AIM Dominion Special Service. Auckland, May 3. If the British Empire and the United States were to form an alliance against war they would be able to prevent it for the next 50 years, according to Br-gadier-Ger.eral 11. W. Lloyd, who arrived from Sydney by the Monterey. A distinguished soldier and now a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, BrigadierGeneral Lloyd has come to New Zealand as representative of a movement known as British-American Co-opera-tion, which aims at bringing the two countries together in the interests of world peace. Brigadier-General Lloyd said that the movement had taken an extraordinarily active form iu Australia and it had made people realise that both New Zealand and Australia were very vulnerable in the case of complications in Europe. There was a gradual realisation both in the United States and Great Britain and, peculiarly enough, last of all iu Australia, that although people talked about the horrors of war it was in the hands of the Englishspeaking nations to prevent it. “If the United States and Great Britain and her Dominions form an alliance against war they can prevent it for the next 50 years.” said BrigadierGeneral Lloyd. “It is no use talking against war. It is in their hands to keep peace and liberty for civilisation. “The movement started rather quietly in Australia, but has become electric in its effect,” added Brigadier-General Lloyd. “Even America, in a most unexpected manner, has realised that it is the only solution of the most difficult problem the world has had to face since 1918.” Brigadier-General Lloyd said that the chairman of the movement was Sir Henry Braddon, M.L.C., and its aims had the support of the Prime Minister of Australia and the Premiers of every State in Australia. The movement's main work consisted of publicity and getting active organisations to realise the value of British-American co-operation. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rt. Hou. M. J. Savage, had been very quick to realise just what the movement meant to the Dominion and had been possibly one of the most active workers in his efforts to bring about an alliance to preserve peace in the Pacific for many years to come.

Brigadier-General Lloyd, who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly since 1929, served at Gallipoli and in France and Belgium with the Royal Australian Field Artillery during the Great War and was Director of Artillery in 1920. He entered business in 1925.