GREAT HOPE IN CONFERENCE
"I am very anxiously looking forward to the result of the Naval Conference now taking place in England, bocause that is not really an isolated tiling. It is really a part of a great peace movement," declared Sir Richard Winfrey at tho New Zealand .Club Inn- ~ j - ■ ■" ~ * i
cheou yesterday. "We cannot reduce taxation and expenditure until we have a measure of disarmament. That is perfectly clear; and we are spending more to-day in Great Britain upon armaments than we were before the war. Wo are doing that because our neighbours are doing it. That is the only reason. We know it is wrong morally, but we are doing it; and I am looking forward, therefore, with great hope to the result of the Naval Conference. I see that it is now being suggested that the Conference shcmkl bo adjourned for six months, in order that France and Italy may come to some agreement. But 1 hope that, whether France and Italy join in or not, wo shall come- to an agreement with America and Japan, and go forward and set an example in tM@ matter.^ {Apglause,^ * ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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