WORLD PROBLEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 7

WORLD PROBLEMS

THE BRITISH ATTITUDE DISCUSSION IN THE .LORDS LONDON, Nov. 30. In the House of Lords, Lord Cecil, in requesting the Government to make a policy statement on disarmament and the 'Sino-Japancse dispute, agreed that equality of status for Germany was the only road to success. Mr Churchill’s suggested territorial rearrangements in Europe without disarmament would he distrusted by the : people, and disastrous to the British disarmament proposals, ft was a long way short of Mr Baldwin’s speech and seemed to invite the other nations to reply in the negative. Lord Reading said he hoped the Government would press for a reduction in armaments expenditure as the most effective means of securing disarmament. This would help our relations with the United States and other countries. '.Lord Hailsham, replying, said he was not in a position to make statements on general policy. Britain was using her influence in the League of Nations I towards it satisfactory settlement in Manchuria. The Government believed that disarmament would be best achieved by informal preliminary exchanges between the principal powers. He hoped that the next few days would produce conditions leading to Germany rejoining the Disarmament Conference.