DISARMAMENT.
.MOTION DEFEATED IN Till] COMMONS. (Received 24, 2 p.m.) London, July 23. In the House of Common; the disarmament motion was defeated by 296 votes to 169. Mr Ramsay MacDonald initiated the date on fifth a motion deploring the on ornious and growing expenditure on military preparations, and urging the Government to take immediate steps to cull an international conference tt consider a programme of national safety based on the policy that by disarmament alone could the peace and liberty of small and huge nations be secured. One colossal folly for which the Government must be held seriously responsible was the wild and wanton escapade ■of Singapore. The pledge given at the beginning of the Great War that that war was to end war had now become the most sacred of all pledges, to the dead. Any party in the House or outside that ventured to play with the pledge broke,faith with the millions who had died. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 186, 24 July 1923, Page 6
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