ARMS AND PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 9

ARMS AND PEACE

’ GREAT BRITAIN’S POLICY. NO.RISKS TO-BE TAKEN. DECLARATION IN LORDS. (United -Press , Associatidn/j-By Electric ■ ' /Telegraph.—Copyright.) • ■ (British Official . Wifeless/) / .:Received./November ,21, ,i 1.20. a.m. *. j ■ ••iRUGBY,!-Nov. .20. • /The- three f days’ ‘./.debate' on defence ended in. the House,, of Lords .W'i.th a BpCecli- by ‘ Lord ' ' H'aii'fix. ;'" Dealing witli.- tliedemand - for setting > pip a Ministry, Suifply for . munitions .of all: kinds,,:hei y e}up.hasised.the. need -for considering/ the maintenance of the financial and economic:.' strength,. of the country,: together/witli armaments as' part of national- defence.; ’ They need not/ yet;/judge -the .situation . so seriously that everything - must be subordinated to / securing a' tremendous supply of : aniis. : For . example, they were trying hardto .ease the flow ,of international trade';those • efforts wbiild’ haVb rtb- stpp"'if : i/everything were /turned- oyer to munitions.; / ; , . ; . I Dealing with Britain’s ‘ liabilities, Lord Halifax: said •lie/ thought the Country "Was' against / automatic; military obligations,Wfind for all his fervent support ot the ITeague of Nations lie would not charge-itlie . membership of! u/'nbn-u'niyefsal -league with such'- obligations. No. nation • could be expected to/ carry.'them out fully in , every . thought to /be. ephtfary. to’their-inter-ests'. ,tliat /.wps nl>£ disloyalty to. . the L'eague,',*bij£- recOgnition-/of ;the 'realities, ' and/'tl'ie -Britjali Got eminent’ had attempted- to reflect realities, in "their proposals - for'/'-' the reform’ of the League.' .' ' ' . ‘ ’ . Ho . added .that/-.- the ' Govcrnnieiit ivas not .blind :to the dangers, of the conflicting, ideologies'in Eut ope. It did not think' any. Country,' however exclusively inspired;; by. self-interest, was anxious riowrto sfgft -a /Eiitppea.n war. / Coiic'ludiilgy:./Lord-.Halifax/, said ' no risks iiiust ‘/be /Pak'e/n, bntr ,i]o cjianee niust be los£ t 6 *feni6yc / international siispiciohhand Britain -sinceßel.v meant to be' friendly//witli ail^nafiohs.;