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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 97, 21 October 1935, Page 9

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LLOYD" GEORGE OUTSPOKEN

I (Recived October 21, 11.40 a.m.) ' LONDON, October 20. Mr. David Lloyd George, speaking at the Whitefields Tabernacle, compared the Government's provision of £2,000,000 for distressed area with the invitation to Britons to spend an extra £200,000,000 on the machinery of human slaughter. "This is tantamount to admitting the abandonment of all efforts towards disarmament," he added, "which up to 1931, every nation took seriously. They are.now rushing headlong towards a greater calamity than the world has yet seen. "If the League had applied sanctions to Italy when Abyssinia for the first time, or even for the second time, appealed to the League, there would have been no war. It was a miserable tale of weakness and delay, bringing all the machinery for peace into contempt." Britons, he said, controlled the destiny of mankind for the next few weeks. The world looked to Britain for leadership and Britain was the j only country the world would follow.;