WAR OR NO WAR?

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6801, 3 January 1929, Page 4

WAR OR NO WAR?

Mr. A. B. Lough ton, who lias resigned from his position as Ambassador to Great Britain, being nominated for Now York State Sc-natorship, made a public speech in favour of depriving Governments of the right to make wa r. He would vest this power in the peoples, who would declare for war or no war by referendum. “Only then,” said Mr. Houghton, “will the process of 'democracy be complete. “So tremendous and fundamental an extension of democratic rule,” he went on, “cannot be made at once. ’ “Nor can it be wisely nor prudently undertaken by any one people. “A period, more or less protracted, of discussion and debate and inquiry must and should and undoubtedly will, intervene. “This plan cannot become effective until the other great self-governing peoples at least, have accepted it, ami have shown their willingness, with our own people, to put it into effect. “It is my profound belief that America lias the opportunity and the. obligation to blaze the way toward permanent peace.”