CAUSE OF PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 8

CAUSE OF PEACE

THE WAY TO VICTORY. SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN’S VIEW. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received Alarcli 12, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, Alarcli 11. In the House of Commons debate on the defence White Paper Sir Herbert Samuel asked were they to ring down the curtain on the Disarmament Conference as a failure like the World Economic Conference. Disarmament was the only road to security. Our duty was not to despair of the League, but to do our utmost to complete a system of collective control, seek an agreement against the private manufacture of arms, and innoculate our people against the insidious infections of war fever. . Sir Austen Chamberlain, submitting the amendment to the vote of censure by the Labour Opposition, saul Air G. R. Attlee had talked of putting faith in collective security, but it was not serving the League to pretend that it could do what it could not. The type of war known as accidental war, by the sudden arousing of national feelings, could lie prevented now by the opportunities for conciliation. The real fear causing world unrest was a war planned of a set purpose to achieve some national ambition, aggrandisement, or revenge, which could not bo satisfied by peaceful means. _ “Let us try to strengthen collective security,” he'said, “but it should not be supposed that the multiplication of pacts and definitions of an aggressor will prevent tlie kind of war where a nation sees a good prospect of success if it throws the dice for war of this sort. War can only be prevented by making it clear to the aggressor that there will be such a massing of forces against him that there can be no prospects of success. We still stand as one of the Great Rowers. II we use our power wisely and justly we might have a great influence on the world, but if we leave our own defence to others what encouragement will it give them to undertake such obligations ?”