BRITAIN’S PART

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 December 1924, Page 5

BRITAIN’S PART

IN WORLD PEACE. AMBASSADOR’S STATEMENT. CO-OPERATION DESIRED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT (Received Dec. 11. 11.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 10. “Britain may have to? go further than the United States in co-operating with other European nations to procure a state of confidence, leading up to disarmament and peace.” So Mr Howard, the British Ambassador, told the members of. the English Speaking Union. “This must not,” he said, “be construed as implying a possibility of a clash between the United States arid Britain, which other nations of the world must really learn to consider, as we already do consider as the one thing we will neither admit nor endure”’ Mr Howard said that every European Power will be glad to reduce expenditure on armaments, if only a sense of security could be established. This could be done by the adoption of the Geneva protocol. Compulsory arbitration was the only way to establish a sense of security. “The one thing is to avoid the impression that we wish to Anglo-Saxonise the world.” The Geneva protocol he described as “just the honest attempt of perfectly honest m<en t? find a method of making war impossible, so far as that can humanly be done.”