TASK OF YOUTH

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12315, 7 April 1933, Page 7

TASK OF YOUTH

MR. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS AT CAMBRIDGE

SUBSTITUTING NEW ORDER FOR CHAOS.

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy ri g h t. LONDON. April 2.

“Xo\Y you young fellows must try your hands. It is useless to blame the older generation, for they inherited 'the muddle. You must now buckle on its armour and cleave a way through the chaos/ 7 said Mr David Lloyd George when, opening the Universities Cbngress at Cambridge. c ‘Other means than pacifist resolutions must be devised to prevent war, namely, a reduction in armaments and tlie strengthening of the machinery of peace. The only man desiring war in 1914 was not in Germany, France, Russia or England, and I shall tell the story a few weeks hence. Every country at present condemns every other country’s actions, which leads to nothing but nationalism, the fruitful cause of war, and every nation remains oppressed. Wilson, Clemenceau and myself did not crate new nations at Versailles, we simply recognised the facts and expressed a world sentiment in favour of the emancipation of the oppressed nationalities. If the nations abuse that liberty they are simply doing what mankind has always done and always will do. We are not responsible for buried nations rising from their mausoleums, doffing their grave clothes, and donning their armour, for they are but realising the danger of insufficient armament against their aggressive neighbours. “Most of the nations were unbalanced because of the scourge of war, but the present chaos would have supervened even without the Great War. There is something wrong with the economic system, because abundance is producing scarcity even while science saves labour. Those refusing to disarm are largely responsible- for tlie situation in Germany, driving Germans to frenzy because they believe themselves to have been tricked. It certainly looks like it. The Allies did not fulfil their promise to disarm after Germany had disarmed, merely signing anything and giving disarmament nothing but lip-ser-vice.”