WAR NOT IMMINENT

Inangahua Times, 14 November 1934, Page 3

WAR NOT IMMINENT

BRITAIN’S RESPONSIBILITIES Frees Atmn.—By Electric , Telegraph-—Copyright.) Rugby, November 12 Captain Anthony Eden, speiking at Stratford-one Avon, said that he was not an alarmist about the future of Europe and he did not believe in the immie nence of war, but no man could deny the difficulties and dangers of the present time. Britain’s responsibilities must be shouldered, and while supporting the League of Nations, while works ing for the Disarmament Con* ference and while seeking to strengthen the collective peace system, they could not in the interval ignore the needs of their own defence, the strength or weakness of which might one day have a formidable conses qnence for the peaee of the world. He had never believed in unilateral disarmament. Britain’s armaments must be directly related to those of other conns tries, and she could never be indifferent to the policies in this respect, which were being pur* sued by other n it ions, whether in Europe or elsewhere. On the other hand, the view of the National < lovernme..t was that the signature of a general disarmament convention would reduce the chance of war and bring a sense of security to a distracted world.