“ON WRONG LINES"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 5

“ON WRONG LINES"

DISARMAMENT EFFORTS MR. CHURCHILL’S SPEECH FACTORS FAVORING PEACE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received November 25, noon.) LONDON, Nov. 2d. Air. Winston Churchill's warning in the House of Commons that disarmament was proceeding along the wrong lines, only resuscitating war mentality, is described as one of the most brilliant, comprehensive and constructive speeches lie lias ever delivered. He emphasised that though armed to the teeth, Eranee was pacifist to ilie co re. “I would rather see another 10 to 20 years of one-sided armed peace than a war between equally well-matched Powers. A war mentality is arising in certain countries. There is hardly a factory in Europe that is not prepared for war, but wisdom and skill may avoid war in our time. I base my confidence, firstly, in the strength of the French Army; secondly, in the Russian preoccupation in the Far East, owing to the enormous increase in Japanese armaments; and, thirdly, to the general detestation of war in all countries. I am not dissatisfied with the Versailles Treaty, but it would be safer to reopen questions like the Danzig corridor and Transylvania than wait until vast combinations, equally matched, confront each other.”