NEW SPIRIT MANIFESTED
VISCOUNT GREY ON SENSE OP
SECURITY;
(Received 24th October, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 23rd October. .Viscount Grey, in a speech at Swansea, referring to the Locarno Conference, emphasised the new spirit which had been manifested owing to Germany entering the comity of Europe on equal terms. In a few years, lie said, Germany must play at least as important a part in European affairs as before the war.
Viscount Grey declared that if war arose, it would not be on the question of a frontier or of nationality, but on the great principle of arbitration and peaceful settlement.
If Britain followed the American example of standing aside from European affairs, that alone would suffice to wreck the peace of Europe.
The only prospects for Russian credit rested in co-operating in a policy of peace.
Ho emphatically declared that the new treaties would prepare the way for. a reduction of armaments, by producing .a sense of security.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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