PEACE IDEALS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 5

PEACE IDEALS.

'OLICY OF AMERICA. 4 □ESIRE FOR UNDERSTANDING. WAR-WTTH-BRITAIN BOGEY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright, Received June 9, 5.5 p.m. Washington, June 8. President Harding, in a speech at an American university, said if all the nations were as unselfish and devoted to ideals as the United States and Canada there would never be another war. “I would call attention to the fact that the United States and Canada settled their controversies satisfactorily without resort to super-power, but by the exercise of the sovereignty of free peoples dealing with one another,” he added. While the League of Nations was not mentioned, Mr. Rowell (Canadian League of Nations delegate) previously voiced the hope that North America should introduce a better spirit in international relations, and seek to jettie differences peaceably.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, June 8. The War Secretary, Mr. Weeks, addressing the New York University, declared: “I cannot give a moment’s serious consideration to the possibility of war with-the British. Such a war would be the end of civilisation. Whatever be the folly of the leaders of either, or both nations, the peoples of Britain and the United States would never support a contest between the two nations. ‘'While I want to see America lead by every proper means in bringing about an understanding among the world’s nations which will ensure the world against another war, I want to see it prepared to defend its right until the day comes when all nations, by mutual consent, shall dismantle their fortifications and scrap their navies.”— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.