NOT A PRIVILEGE
NATIONAL ARMAMENTS
LORD CECIL AND LEAGUE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 25th March. Lord Cecil, who is presiding at tbe League of Na.tions Union. Conference now proceeding at the London Guildhall, said that if any progress was to be made at the Geneva. Disarmament Conference next year, they had to got rid of one fundamental conception— the result of tradition and history— namely, that national armaments were a privilege—an element in the prestige I and reputation of nations. Tho real truth was that armaments were a burden, a necessary evil, and a lelie of barbarism, or, at any rate, of imperfect civilisation. Nations ought to regard their armaments as something they maintain very much against their will,, merely as a concession to the evil state of things still existing in the world, and something which ought to be abolished as soon as possible. The nation which had the courage, rigour, and initiative to diminish its armaments most was really the nation that was leading" the world, and which was entitled to the greatest amount of reputation, and prestige.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 9
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180NOT A PRIVILEGE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 9
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