TROUBLE IN THE WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 805, 7 September 1923, Page 5

TROUBLE IN THE WORLD.

CAUSED BY UNITED STATES, LORD BJRKENKSAD- SPEAKS OUT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Beoeived September 7, 8,50 a..m- ' OTTAWA, Sept, 6. Mr Martin Conboy, of New York, addressing the Canadian Bar Association at Montreal, said: "The United States is satisfied to live its own lire and not meddle in. Europe." Lord Birkenhead immediately followed, bluntly suggesting that that, was what he said in New York in 1918, when he raised the fiercest turmoil in tho United States. "Now it I appears after all that I was quite j right. It is a bit late, you know. We were very stupid when the great pea#e conference was on at Versailles. If we '.had only then realised.that the United iStates intended to live its own life, we Would have been -ahead.. If at Ver- . ii lilies we knew that the United States v? as to remain out, endless trouble in t ! t ie world might have been spared. yly e should have known and been prepared for what the United States did w:Hh Armenia, what happened in G; i eece, and in that case, the Ruhr or,<liua might have been avoided. What I jilm Baying I am perfectly aware will rai I * a. 6torm. I am prepared to hack, up my statement at any time and in any', country. Either the school of idet | tan which predated the last election' in the United States is right, or it is'• wrong: lam inolined to oelievo that it is right."—A. and N.Z. cable.