LIVING IN MADHOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 11

LIVING IN MADHOUSE

MR, BALDWIN'S EEELINGF,

BEST WAY TO ENSURE PEACE

(British Official Wlreleu.) (Received April" 10, 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, April 9.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, owing to a* engagement in Wales, was unable ta» attend yesterday's Cabinet meeting. He spoke last night at Llandrindod Wells, and referred to the outlook ■ in' international politics. At times, he said, he felt that he was living in a madhouse. A great attempt was made at Versailles to redraw the map o£ Europe, and to allow for differences, so far as they were concerned with ethnology. Wise and just though it might have been, that attempt had nod been accepted as such by all to whom the settlement was applied.

"We fought the war to make th« world safe for democracy," he said, "and the world is not safe for demo« cracy and all that that word means to* day." He had not lost hope yet in the limitation of armaments, he added, and he would stick to Germany on that subject until she had declared that she would not have anything to dq with it.

"But if she or any other country will not consider these things, then I think the situation becomes far more difficult. I would say this—this country does not want war, and does not mean to have war, and if war can only be stopped by letting the aggressor know that war will not be permitted in Europe, this country will play her part, I am convinced, with the rest of Europe to see that no aggression shall take jlace. Collective security is a difficult subject. We do not know, we cannot tell, what form it may take, but as one who has been studying and working on this question throughout bad times through many years I am driven to the conclusion that!the best way we have of ensuring peace is by some means of collective, security, and to that end, inside the League ofi Nations, the whole of Europe must gel together to play its part and devise means by which this great end can b« achieved." .