1936 ECHOES 1897

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 3

1936 ECHOES 1897

“Remember this—that this federation of Europe is tlie embryo 'of the only possible structure of Europe which'can save Europe from tne desolating effects of a disastrous war. You notice that on all sides the instruments of destruction, the piling up of arms, are becoming larger and larger. “The powers of concentration are becoming greater, the instruments of death more active and more numerous, and are improved witli every year; and each nation is bound for its own safety’s sake to take part in this competition. “These are the things which are done, so to speak, on the side of war. The one hope that -we have to prevent this competition from ending in a terrible effort of mutual destruction, which will be fatal to Christian civilisation—the one hope we have is that the Powers may gradually be brought together, to act together in a friendly spirit on all questions of difference which may atise until at last they shall be welded in some international constitution, which shall give to the world as a result of their great united strength a long spell of unfet-

tered and prosperous trade and continued peace.”—The late Lord Salisbury in 1897, in a speech delivered at the Mansion House.