ENDURING PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 284, 29 October 1928, Page 7

ENDURING PEACE

WORLD-WIDE DESIRE

WORK FOR ALL PEOPLES TO DO,

EFFECT OF KELLOGG PACT.

(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.)

(Received October 29, 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 27. Speaking at the Albert Hall on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the inception of the League of Nations, the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin, stated: — “Our interests and our inclinations alike prompt us to preserve and even strengthen the cordiality of our relations with Germany as well as with France and with Italy, with whom we have been on most friendly terms for generations, and nothing has occurred or will occur to interrupt that friendship.” Proceeding, Mr Baldwin expressed profound regret regarding the temporary failure to come to ,au agreement with America on naval matters, and he deplored evidences contained in articles in American publications of a deep suspicion where Britain was concerned.

“There is no echo in this country of that. 'Our policy in naval building is, and has been for the last few years, to go slow. AVe have no intention of building in competition with the United States of America. AVe came to that decision and we built slowly long before we were asked to sign the Kellogg Pact. But I would like to express the pleasure which I feel that that Pact has been signed. AA 7 e have deliberately turned our hacks on war as an instrument that has been used from the beginning of Time. “AVe are grateful to Mr Kellogg for bringing that treaty with him to Europe.”

The Pact meant that every man and woman in every civilised country of the world must work without ceasing to bring the common conscience of Mankind up to the level of the obligations demanded by that treaty. The world needed the will to peace, and permanent peace. It was to further that desire that the League of Nations was established, and that the Locarno Treaties and the Kellogg Pact were signed.

BRITISH PEOPLE’S EFFORT. (Australian Press Association.—United Service.) LONDON, Oct. 27. “I doubt if any people have subdued the war spirit more than the British,” stated the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin. at a great gathering at the Albert Hali on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the inception of the League of Nations Union. Mr Baldwin added that .as a result of the. work of the League international jurisprudence was being built up, to which the strongest nations would .have to conform. He said that he must contradict the idea, for which there was no shadow of foundation, that Britain to some extent had abandoned the position of impartiality and conciliation which she had assumed at the time of the Locarno Pact.

The policy of the Government was to help to complete the great post-war task of eliminating mutual rivalries and suspicions. Viscount Grey had declared that more than one war had already been averted by recourse to the League of Nations, AVe had made no new. entanglements. ; There was 'no change in the orientation of our policy. ‘,‘lf you think you are going to defeat things that culminate in hatred and war without a spiritual flight you are foredoomed to failure,” Mr Baldwin stated. “The tiger in us all must bo eliminated if the State is to survive.” Mr Baldwin did not mention the building of ships in competition with the United States.

The King sent a message that in the support of the League only rested our chief hope for the future peace of the world.