WORLD TENSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23194, 14 November 1938, Page 10

WORLD TENSION

CHANCES FOR PEACE ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PLANS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. Nov. 12 World tension was tho subject of a broadcast to America by Mr. Lloyd George, who, emphasising tho storminess of the present era, said thero was no disposition during the relief from the crisis to examine the terms under which the frightened democracies escaped from the dictators. The first reaction to it was a demand for stronger defences, added Mr. Lloyd George. The two-Power and four-Power pacts did not ensure peace, but merely made the aggressor States free from the embarrassment of democratic interference while the aggressors pursued their designs elsewhere. "Tho only chance of world peace is an assembly of tho great nations to discuss tho best means of attaining it," he concluded.

The leader of tbe Liberal Party, Sir Archibald Sinclair, after referring to Germany launching tho most ferocious pogrom west of the Vistula since the Middle Ages, urged the redoublement of efforts to solve tho refugee problem, to show Germany that tho prico of her friendship with other nations was to stop persecuting and robbing the Jews, flinging them to tho charity of her neighbours. Sir Archibald said Germany's treatment of the Jews within her borders was her own affair, but when she drove them out she lifted the problem to tho international plane. She must contribute to tho solution, at least to the extent of restoring their property. Moreover, the Arabs must not bo allowed to frighten Britain from the fulfilment of her pledges to give the Jews a national home in Palestine. "Britons cannot hand over to Germany any primitive Africans now enjoying impartial British rule," continued Sir Archibald. "Tho real issue is whether we are prepared to defend the just, free and truthful basis of our civilisation against the principle of force on which dictatorship rests." UNCERTAIN FUTURE

APPEAL TO UNITED STATES FORMER PRESIDENT'S SPEECH MENLO PARK (CALIFORNIA). Nov. 12 The former President, Mr. Herbert Hoover, in an Armistico Day speech, said: "Tho world can get scant assurance of the futuro from tho birth of dictatorships, tho war upon China, tho sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, the persecution of the Jews, and the terrorism in Russia, tho hates of nationalism and greatly increased armaments. "The outlook all over tho world today is indeed grim, yet wo owo it to our Avar dead that wo press toward tho ideals for which they made their high sacrifice," continued Mr. Hoover. "Our course is clear. Wo must bo prepared to defend our independence nnd our honour. To bo respected is tho first step to peaco in a dangerous world. "We must also not ceaso to use our moral strength in conciliation and indignation to bring peaco and justice. It is by the riso of moral forces that real peaco will again come to tho world."