PREVENTING WAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 11 December 1924, Page 5

PREVENTING WAR

WHAT THE POWERS DESIRE. SENSE OF SECURITY. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Received December 11. 9.35 a.in. NEW YORK. Dec. 10. “Britain may have to go further than the United (states in co-operating with tin* other European nations to procure a state ot' confidence louding up 10 disarmujnont and pence.” So Sir Ernie Howard. British Ambassador, told the members of the English Speaking Union. “This must not,” he siiid, “he construed as implying the* possibility of a clash between the United States and Britain which , the oilier nations of the world must really leani to consider, as wo already do consider, its the one thing we will neither admit nor endure.” Sir Howard said that every. European power would be glad to reduce its expenditure on armaments if only n sense of security could be established. This could he done by the adoption of the Geneva* protocol. Compulsory arbitration was the only way to establish a sense of security. “The one thing to avoid.” he said, “is the impression that we wish to Anglo-Saxonise the world.” The Geneva protocol he described as 41 j list an honest attempt of perfectly honest men to liud a method of making war impossible so fur as that cun be done.”—A. and N.Z. cable.