WORLD PEACE

Evening Star, Issue 19699, 28 October 1927, Page 6

WORLD PEACE

ADDRESS BY SIB AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN NATIONAL POLICY DANGER PARTY STRIFE MUST NOT INTERRUPT CONTINUITY. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, October 27. Sir Austen o'hamberlaiu spoke on ‘World Peace' at o luncheon given in his honor by tho Alclwych Club. The Diplomatic Corps was strongly represented. Ho said that the recent meeting of tho League of Nations had attracted in this country, for reasons which one could well understand, more attention than had usually been attracted by the meetings of tha tAsesmbly. Undoubtedly the failure of the Three-Power Naval Conference had caused tho proceedings of the recent Assembly to bo viewed with a certain amount of anxiety and additional interest on tins occasion. The nations assembled at Geneva had exercised greater freedom in discussing those questions which affected them, and that was due, not to the fact that tho situation was more dangerous, but that the representatives of the assembled nations were encouraged by the spirit which now prevailed to bring into the light of day discussion of questions which in more delicate and dangerous moments had been reserved for secret conference. “ There is one danger,” lie said, “ which I hope all men of all parties will seek to avoid. I hope no one will desire to make tho League of Nations become the .subject of party controversy. I hold it to be the duty of every Foreign Sccretnyr io preserve within measure of what is possible a mil ional policy which, whatever, and whenever, change of Government may come, will he still a policy which can bo pursued with continuity, for upon continuity the success of onr diplomacy depends.” Referring 10-tlic resignation from tho Cabinet of Viscount Cecil, Sir Austen Chamberlain said lie was not quite sure wherein tho differences between himself and Lord Cecil on League questions consisted. “ But, if I under,stand Lord Cecil, ho would be_ willing to run risks and undertake obligations which, it scorns to me, tho trustees of this Empire have neither the right to undertake nor the power to fulfil,”