PEACE PACT

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1925, Page 5

PEACE PACT

ON GERMAN PLAN. BRITISH SFPPGRT. (Rcc-pivod April 22 at 9.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON. April 21 Addressing the English-Speaking Union at Princeton on the subjects of Britain’s rejection of the Geneva Pro tocol, Compulsory Arbitration, in lu ternational Disputes, and the Hopes of Future Peace in Europe, by means of the Security Pact proposed Ly Germany. Sir Esme Hawn rd. the British Ambassador, said that it was not yet impossible to say how the security pact discussions would end, “but .we can at hast all hope that they may lead to a st ttlement by agreement, and to th? establishment of a peace that will not be dependent upon huge, ruinous armaments, but bo based on goodwill and common —lf that comes about, the next disarmament conference will nit be long in arriving. If. on the other hand, hope fades away, and dies, why, then, I do not see any other alter, native but the maintenance of our natior..'!* (and what irony to call ii sh-ip-?- ' ' r — .-<■> of arms and military alliances, which will mean crush, ing taxation, financial ruin and an inevitable .Armageddon in thp end.” Referring to the failure of the Protocol, Sir Esme Howard said: ‘>lt broke down largely over the matter of the sanctions. It is obvious that the application of economic sanctions unless supported by all the Great Powers, could not succeed in its object, but might bring into serious conflict other States. It is possible that the other powers whose delegates signed the Pro. 1 did not see this possibility so clearly as the different parts of th<* British Common wealth of Nations, but lo - *- the latter it was clear to the naked