"STRATFORD EVENING POST" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929. AN EXPLORER OF PEACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 4 October 1929, Page 4

"STRATFORD EVENING POST" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929. AN EXPLORER OF PEACE.

MI HMhe>M ms] . ws °f the \ lime Empire, beginning with tJie lung fo S p o ed. him Mr Ivamsay 'MacDonald is on bi| way to Washington, His jourT\r' y .T ; ! ,u ' s 1)0 srn; dl innovation. .o. British Prime Minister lias visited a foreign country to discuss its. relations with ' his own net ore. .Kings used to do such things a couple of hundred years a.yo, though they did not include America in their visits, hut political power is no longer reposed in British Prime Ministers, however, have gone repeatedly to Geneva to discuss international problems, and that good habit can bo regarded as having paved the way for Mr MacDonald’s departure. There have been conflicting statements as to whether his business in America will include an attempt to settle the precise points left outstanding in- the preliminary conditions for a naval agreement between Great Britain and the United States. The most natural presumption is that it will not- That would not naturally be the Prime Minister’s business, and (lie absence of any naval expert from his small party must confirm the anticipation that it will be left' to the Pive-Power Conference to be held in London in JanuaryThe conclusion which the ‘Manchester Guardian’ makes from! the omission, that, the outstanding points have been already set-' that, goes too tar to be convincing without more information. Mr MacDonald’s description of his mission is that he goes on a voyage of exploration, lie does not ('Xpert bis visit to lead to spectacular developments, hus he hopes that it will prove a fruitful innovation. He will explore the difficulties that have existed up lilt now for an extension of naval limitation as between Great Britain and AmerK-, ami he will endeavour above all things, it is to be expected. To crook; tV right ah mospbere for their solution, i s |p.> 'iropo"' ’Umo bos bemt ari''U£>- , M 1 be wdl -wml as mmffi t P;>“ a«’pocsihl« fisbbin' m o-iurp-” with Presihmt Hoover, oud |b,e smallest conceal of b°'a will bo in wind; they cM-h. Tim two cbonld anyee w-■p-etlmr. have been tar

Hr lloovoi' is himself a very ]ira(-1 Teal idealist. There is every reason to believe Jnlll to be as keen for naval limitation'and world peace as Mr MacDonald. The line which lie has taken in these latest negotiations, and in basing them on the Kellogg Pact, as he~lias done, suggests the largest, of all outlooks on In’s part, and one that gives more promise than any other for their successful issue*. The President it has been said, looks forward to the day when there will be so many pledges against war that, the country that dares to break them will be assured at once of the whole world's condemnation. There will be no of America or any other leading nation desiring to trade with it. So the only wars will be public wars, and navies will be pooled, ifi all interests and purpose's, as an international police _ force, and lining cooled there will be no need for their individual eoniiitnance upon the present scale-