LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
LABOR MINISTER'S VIEWS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received May 18, 8.50 -a.m.) LONDON, May 17. Mr. Barnes, a member of the War Cabinet, m a speech at East Ham, said : The League of Nations after the war must reduce armaments, suppress private capitalism therein, and inaugurate machinery to enforce decrees. He added that it was difficult to envisage a league including Austria and Germany, but we must look beyond the smoke of battle, We must subordinate our feeling of repugnance for Germans and look ahead for the time when the German people are chastened. Their present depravity may only be a passing phase: It may well be that the peace terms require Germany to enter the League. There was a growing feeling among Entente democracies that the Governments should consult organised Labor to a greater extent. Mr. Barnes suggested an early sitting of the Hague Conference to frame a scheme to reduce armaments amonst the Entente Powers, also a scheme for combined action against aggression.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 3
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