HONEST NATIONS
DELAY IN DISARMING FEAR OF DISHONEST MACDONALD IN , BERLIN United Press Association—By Electric Tele eraph Copyright Australian Press Association—United, Serrlce (Received 16th October, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, 15th October. Including the Chancellor, the Ministers of Cabinet, man}'1 deputies, British and other diplomats, eight hundred filled the Reichstag to hear Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald's speech at the invitation of the Committee for International Discussion. Herr Loebe, the President of the Reichstag, introduced Mr. Mac Donald, saying that Berlin still remembered how Mr. Mac Donald bravely pleaded for England's neutrality at the outbreak of war and had recently urged the withdrawal of troops from the Rhine? land. ' • Mr. Mac Donald's speech stressed the necessity for international peace, j He was warmly applauded for saying that when the truth was told it would be found that no nation was wholly responsible for the war. Britain's policy was friendship to all democratic nations. Disarmament had progressed slowly because nations feared to be deceived by others. An honest nation feared victimisation by dishonest ones.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 9
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170HONEST NATIONS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 9
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