DISARMAMENT DEBATE.
A MEMBER’S OPINION. TALK OF “WILD, WANTON ESCAPADE.” Elec T»‘l Copyright-United Press Assii.i (Australian anil N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 24, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 23. In the House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald initiated a debate on disarmament with a motion deploring the enormous 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 small and large nations be secured. One colossal folly for which the Government must be hehi seriously responsible was the wild, wanton escapade of Singapore. The pledge, given at the beginning of the great war that the war was to end war had now become the most, sacred of all pledges to the dead. Any party in the House or outside that ventured to play with the pledge broke faith with millions who had died. (Received July 24, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 23. In the House of Commons the disarmament motion was defeated by 296 votes (o 169.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 6
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