ADDRESS BY MR. BRUCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 September 1921, Page 5

ADDRESS BY MR. BRUCE.

ARBITRAMENT OF JUSTICE

~ (Received Sep. 14, 3.15 a.m.) h 4 ., . r GENEVA, Sep. -is. the League of Nations, Mr Bruce said that Australia, had bled v helping to ; save European civilisation, and that was why Australia »s *s interested* as anyone in the future |uocesg^of the. League of Nations, He noped, would replace the arbitrament of "arms by the arbitrament of justice. Such a change had long Jbeefi_ realised in Australian industrial eonfljcts. The League considered too j «Sny minor subjects. It should con-1 eentrate on disarmament. It was im-1 perative that the, League should have, weapons with which to enforce its de-j cisions, but meantime the economic blockade should prov© most effective •ecause the world was so organised j that no nation could withstand such a blockade. I

s Mr^ Bruce made a considerable im-1 pression, and was congratulated by Messrs Balfour and Fisher (England) and Rowell (Canada), who warmly supported his proposition 4» concentrate on disarmament.