ARMAMENTS FAILURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 11

ARMAMENTS FAILURE

WORLD’S DARKEST CLOUD ARCHBISHOP’S COMMENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. In his charge to the Anglican Synod to-day, Archbishop Avail! said the darkest cloud upon the world's horizon ‘was the.partial failure of the Disarmament Conference. While thankful for the work done at 1 Lausanne in respect of reparations, could it bo expected that there would he much alleviation of the war debts position so long as the nations refused to come to grips with the all-important question of armament reduction.

The position of America seemed to him logical and reasonable, for how could she be expected to make a great sacrifice unless the other nations were prepared to meet her half-way by consenting to a real reduction in armaments and manifesting a real desire to fulfil the treaty engagements. It was useless to endeavor to fix war guilt upon- Germany for all time, and to perpetuate an open sore if the other nations were hindering the consolidation of peace by refusing to honor their undertakings to limit armaments.

The Archbishop said conferences and pacts were of little value unless backed up by a right national and individual, spirit. It seemed to him that the; League of Nations, in spite of all the; criticism, was the world’s greatest hope, and deserved the hacking of all men and women of goodwill.