HOW TO STOP WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1929, Page 5

HOW TO STOP WAR

NO ARMAMENTS SUPPLIED. (United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, February 10. An important joint resolution will shortly be offered by Senator Cappen, as follows:—That the exportation of arms or war materials from the United States to countries violating the Kellogg Pact shall be unlawful, and that the United States withdraw the bulk of its support from those of its national who give aid and comfort to any nation which has permitted a breach of that Treaty; also that the President should enter into negotiations with other signatories to the Pact that they too should withdraw protection from their nationals who give aid and comfort to nations violating the Treaty. Senator Capper said there is a “well nigh unanimous public demand for taking the next step for safeguarding international peace.” He added that any nation which provoked or invited war, if unable “to buy munitions and supplies from the American people with which to carry on war, then that war will come to a sudden end.” LABOUR POLICY DEFINED. LONDON, February 11. Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, in an article in the “Morning Post,” defines the foreign policy of the Labour Party as being one of peace and co-operation, one which not merely avoids war, but Will put the thoughts of and preparations for war out of the mind of the nations.

Mr MacDonald says that the fear and the suspicion in the hearts of the people keep them armed, not against p.ny enemy in sight, but against the shadow of a possible enemy. “The nations,” he says, “are afraid to walk in the unfamiliar ways of peace. The dictum that ought to orientate British foreign policy is that an established peace is the best security, and this antiquates all military policies; but the Foreign Secretary must remember that no country can move far beyond the others. The Foreign Secretary cannot isolate his country, but he can keep the world moving rapidly. The time is overdue for evacuating the Rhineland, and for settling all of the reparations, and also for accepting Russia as a fact. British relations with the United States should be put on a satisfactory footing, not by unofficial talks, but officially and formally.”