FUTILE PEACE EFFORTS
SIR JAMES PARR’S VIEW DOMINION DANGER IF WAR GOMES fPea United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 28. “Armaments and preparations for war are the chief considerations of the' world to-day,” said Sir James Parr,formerly High Commissioner, who arrived by the Orcades from London. . “ I cannot help thinking that the time for world peace has not yet arrived. While 1 admire the gigantioefforts made by Mr I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that his efforts have largely fallen on deaf ears. “Here in the. Pacific, the dangers we are threatened with are not appreciated. If Britain should be engaged idi war she would not be able to spare a battleship for Singapore, where oiif: problem really lies?’ . .He said the world was working with, feverish activity to produce more aero* planes. Britain had discovered her weakness in this connection, andl was. setting out to revise the position, and would procure aeroplanes from wherever she could get them. ' . Sir James Parr has been travelling in the United Kingdom and on the Cori-i tinent for the last two years. He Is visiting New Zealand on private bust l ness, and is not pure of toe length of his stay.
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Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 12
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199FUTILE PEACE EFFORTS Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 12
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