A CHANGED TUNE.

Grey River Argus, 22 July 1926, Page 5

A CHANGED TUNE.

WAR SPIRIT DENOUNCED. BY POLITICIAN WHO EXPLOITED IT. LONDON, July 20. A striking warning to youth to combine against the war spirit was issued by Mr Lloyd George, in a speech at the World Convention of Christian Endeavour Union. Ho said that he belonged to a class which was brought up in a world in which armaments with occasional wars were regarded as part of the grim essentials of human civilisation. A more horrible, devastating and greater war had yet to come, unless youth tears that idea from the heart of civilisation. It had been said that it was the old men who made wars, in which tho young were killed. It was not so. He could never forget the days of 1914 when Whitehall was thronged with young men clamouring for war. “When the war spirit came, it swept over all ages and classes. Youth must get away from that idea, otherwise 1 warn you that the last war will not be the greatest war that wilt be waged. Peace is impossible without disarmament. Armies were a temptation to any nation.

“Despite the world war, there were greater armies in Europe to-day than ever before. Europe had drunk armaments until she had got delirium tremens in 1914, and she was going on secretly drinking: now.”