WORLD DISARMAMENT
: "Disarmament, the League o£ Nations, and World Federatkvi" was the subject discussed at a, ree<mt meeting of St. Hilda's (Island Baj) branch' of the Church of England Men's Society. Mr. E. Boocock gave an interesting address, in the course of which! he stated that disarmament as advocated, consisted not in the isolated abandonment: of defence measures by any one Power—such a, policy might well prove, suicidal—but rather in a progressive movement of mutual cooperation.'among the nations. "May we not look forward," the speaker asked, "even to a federation of the world in. which the Council of the League, acting as a cabinet and with the services of the ablest men of all races at its disposal, adjudicates for the common welfare?" In such a federation the League would build up a system'of international police involving the gradual dissolution of all armies of a purely national nature. There was a, good at* tendance of members and friends, pra.cjj. "Really all of whom took part.in, the dis*-. iifussip* SfMoh followed,' "■" " "" """ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7
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170WORLD DISARMAMENT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7
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