DISARMAMENT MOTION
DEFEATED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). {Australian & N.Z. Cable Association;
LONDON. July 23. In the House of Commons Mr Ramsay MacDonald initiated a debate on disarmament with a motion deploring the growing expenditure on military preparations and urging the Government to take immediate steps to call an international conference to consider a programme of national safety based on a policy that by disarmament alone could the peace and liberty of both sniall and largo nations be secured. One colossal folly for which the Government must be held seriously responsible was the wild and wanton escapade of Singapore. The pledge given at the beginning of tlie Great War that that war was to end all war had now become the most sacred of all pledges to the dead. Any party in the House or outside that ventured - tb play with that pledge broke faith with the millions who had died. The motion -was defeated by 296 to 169.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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161DISARMAMENT MOTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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