LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 29 October 1928, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH BY MR BALDWIN MESSAGE FROM THE KING United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright Australian Press Association.—United Service. LONDON, 27th October. “I doubt if any people have subdued the war spirit more than the British,” said Mr Baldwin at a great gathering at Albert Hall on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the inception of the League of Nations Union. He must contradict the idea, for which there was no shadow of foundation,, that Britain to some extent had abandoned her position of impartiality and conciliation, which she had assumed at the time of the Locarno Pact. The policy of the Government was to help to complete the great post-war task "of eliminating mutual rivalries and suspicions. Viscount Grey declared that more than one war had already been averted by recourse to the League of Nations. Wo had made no new entanglements. There was no change in the orientation of our policy. “If you think you are going to defeat things that culminate in hatred and withstand war, without a spiritual light, you are foredoomed to failure,” he said. “The tiger in us all must bo eliminated if the State is to survive.” He did not mention building ships in competition with the United States.

The King sent a message that in support. of the League only, rested our chief hope for the future peace of the world.