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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 5

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BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY NOT A POLITICAL MATTER (British Official Wireless.) Ree. 10 ami. RUGBY, Afar. 22. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary were among the guests, entertained by the Foreign Press Association in London last night. During his speech, Mr. Baldwin, referring to the coming General Election, said: “Whatever Government is in power in this country, and to whatever party it. belongs, the broad lines of our foreign policy will not greatly change. The ultimate object of this country, and of all parties alike, is peace, and it is only' on conditions of peace that we can develop our own and the Empire’s resources, and make, so far as wc are able, our contribution, as other nations do, to the welfare of mankind. ’ ’

Sir Austen Chamberlain described the growth in the, confidence and strength of the League of Nations, and the increased co-operation from outside of the United States. He said: — “Any nation, however great its power, can safely face the future. I am an idealist, but I. try always not to lose myself in pursuit if ideals beyond our reach. It is not. as an idealist, but as a realist that I say r ’ we have not, yet erected, and’perhaps, never shall erect, an absolute unelimbablc barrier against war, but the world has made progress. Aggression is becoming more difficult, and the guarantees and securities for peace are sensibly increased.”