RENUNCIATION OF WAR.
BRITISH ATTITUDE GIVES SATISFACTION. THRESHOLD OF. NEW ERA. (UNITE)' PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY El. Eel Rl< TELEGRA PH—COPYRIGHT.) (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, May 13. Sir Austen Chamberlains Parliamentary istatment regarding the British attitude towards the renunciation of war pact and his forecast of the British .reply which, if the Dominions approve, will be sent to Washington, are reported to have created much satisfaction, both in the United States and in France. Mr. J. I. dynes, the Labour Parliamentarian, speaking yesterday to the Labour Party, gave the wannest welcome to Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statement. He said : “The proposal is not a displacement of League principles ; it supplements them in a form more readily understood, and the welcome given in the House of Commons this week is the most helpful thing which lias happened in recent years. It brings us, to the threshold of a new era.” Mr. Clones added that heavy armament burdens would be inconsistent with the proposal, and the nations would have to accept a disarmament policy of insincerity were to be avoided.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 May 1928, Page 5
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