WORLD PEACE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 5

WORLD PEACE.

BRITAIN’S AIM “DELIBERATELY TURNED OUR BACKS ON WAR” NO ARMAMENT RACE WITH AMERICA. PRIME MINISTER DEPLORES ATTITUDE OF SUSPICION. (British Oflloial Wireless.. RUGBY, Oct. 28. Mr Baldwin, speaking at the League of Nations Union, said: “Our interests and our inclinations alike prompt us to preserve and ' even strengthen the cordiality of our relations with Germany ,as well as with France. With Italy we have been on the most friendly terms for generations, and nothing has occurred, or will occur, to interrupt that friendship.” Proceeding, bo expressed profound regret regarding the temporary failure to come to an agreement with America on naval matters, and he deplored the evidences in articles In American publications of deep suspicion where Britain was concerned. “There is no echo in this country of that. Cur policy in naval building is, and lias been, for the last few years, to go slow. We have no intention of building in competition with the United States of America. We came to that decision, and we built slowly, Jong before we were asked to sign the Kellogg Pact, but [ would like to express the pleasure which I feel that that pact has been signed at this time. We have deliberately turned out backs on war as the instrument that- has used from the beginning of time. We arcgrateful to Mr Kellogg for bringing that treaty with him to Europe.”

That nact meant that every man and woman in every civilised country of the world must work without ceasing to bring the common conscience of mankind up to the level of the obligations demanded by that treaty. The world needed the will to peace, and permanent peace, not only machinery. but heart and mind and soul. It was to father that decree that the League of Nations was established and the Locarno treaties and the Kellogg Pact were signed.