PEACE OF THE WORLD
BRITAIN’S RESPONSIBILITIES. NECESSITY OF OWN DEFENCE. British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 12. Mr. R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal, speaking at Stratford-on-Avon, said he was not an alarmist about the future of Europe. He did not believe in the imminence of war, but nb man coud deny the difficulties and dangers at the I resent time. Britain’s responsibilities must be shouldered, and while supporting the League of Nations, while working for the Disarmament Jonference and while seeking to strengthen the collective peace system Britain could not in the interval ignore the needs of her own defence, the strength or weakness of which might day have a formidable consequence for the peace of the world. ’He had never believed in unilateral disarmament. Britain's armaments must be directly related to those of other countries, and she could never be indifferent to the policies in this respect which were being pursued by other nations, whether in Europe or elsewhere. On the other hand, the view of the National Government was that the signature of a general disarmament convention would reduce the chance of war and bring a sense of security to the distracted world.
Herr von Ribbentrop, Herr Hitler’s disarmament envoy, is expected to call on Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office this afternoon.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1934, Page 14
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