DISARMAMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

DESIRE FOR LIMITATION.

APPEAL BY MR H ARGING.

A HEAVY BURDEN.

BY CABLE—tfBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Delayed.)

WASHINGTON, June 30

President Harding has made an appeal- to Congress /for an expression favourable to the limitation of arma-. ments. "I am vastly more concerned over the favourable attitude of Congress than the'form of expression," he wrote the House Republican Leader (MrMondell).

The desire was granted this afternoon, when the Borah amendment to the Navy Bill, authorising the .President to invit"© Britain and Japan ■to confer and enter into an agreement for reducing their'naval prpgranime annually, for five years to. an extent to "be agreed upon, was adopted by 330 votes to 4. : : -■■ -^ . ■• .

'LONDON, July 2

:Mr Yv. M. Hughes, in an article in tEc» Sunday Pictorial, points out that the world's expenditure for military and naval purposes in 1920 greatly exceeded. £1,000,000^000. The world, Jhough looking for; peace, is actually spending more upon war and warliSe preparations than in. 1913.'

Mr Hughes adds: If disarmament is not an obtainable ideal at present, the limitation of armaments and the settlement of disputes by peaceable means are goals that we may 6urely obtain. M\ Lloyd George has said Britain is ready to discuss .the limitation of armaments with American and other great Powers, and President Harding's speech held out hope that some arrangement may be arrived at. I cannot believe other nations will lag behind if Britain and America show they are resolved) to translate their words into action.