When World Returns to Sanity

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 231, 1 October 1935, Page 9

When World Returns to Sanity

' NEED FOR LARGER SHIPS BRITAIN NOT THE ENEMY OE ITALY United Press Association.— By Electrlo Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 27. “Some may wonder why at present w e should spend nearly one million pounds on such a ship,” said Mr Irvine Geodes at tho mercantile lunch aboard the liner Orion Tllo answer, he said, is that we are engaged in continuing a business confident that when the world returns to sanity Australia’s prosperity and expansion perhaps will need even larger ships. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in proposing success to tho Orion, alluded to the absence of Hon. Mr Bruce. He eulogised the ability with which ho waß discharging a great duty at Geneva. “Britain,” said Mr MacDonald, “was not the enemy of Italy and did not desire to quarrel. No nation was more single heartedly or with greater sincerity working for peace than Britain. He asked Italy was it worth while.’