BRITISH APPEAL

Grey River Argus, 8 June 1931, Page 5

BRITISH APPEAL

DEADLY AIR WAR j i World’s Menace | REAL DISARMAMENT IMPERATIVE. ’ (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 5. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Henderson) delivering the Burge Memorial 1 Lecture, at London, to-night, on “Con--1 solidating World Peace,” declared that 1 in respect of every forward policy in the last twelve years, public opinion of nations had always been ahead of what the Government wore prepared f to do. As it had been with moral dis- ' • armament, so he was convinced it 1 would be with physical disarmament ' ’ as well. His only fear was that people * I would not understand the chance with which next year’s Disarmament ConferI once presented them, and that they ■ f would not make their Governments un- • derstand that their delegations to the ’ I conference could not be too bold, or go I too far. U ‘‘My own fear is that the nations 1 will not show .the Governments in j time that they can count upon sup- Iport for all reductions in armaments, however drastic to wh’ch the confer- . ’ once may agree,” he said. “The world | must be organised for peace as it had i been organised for war, and peaceI maker* must direct the forces of public opinion -towards deliberately planned and carefully concerted efforts, if the > lawful calamity of another world tragedy, fought under still more terrible conditions than the last war, is to be averted. ’ ’ Mr Henderson referred tn the | strengthening of the general authority i I and prestige of the League of Nations, I and declared that the day was near, if I it had not already come, when it 1 should be unthinkable that a nation ' should refuse to submit its quarrel • either to the League Council or to arbi- • tration. Experience suggested that i world peace could no longer be local- | ised. Terrible as the last war had been, any further war must be infinitely worse. “Make no mistake. Unless by successive and it may be only by grad- I ual stages we can bring about disarmament of the world, innocent people will then be victims of deadly attack from the air,” he added.