UNIVERSAL PEACE CONFERENCE.
— «, SPEECH BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. PLEA FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH GERMANY. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. LONDON, July 29. Addressing a meeting at the Queen's Hall in connection with the Universal Peace Conference, Mr Lloyd George, deprecating the mutual distrust between Britain and Germany, said: — " The only real thing ' is expenditure. We started it. We had an overwhelming preponderance at sea, yet we were not satisfied. We said, 'let there be Dreadnoughts.' What for? We did not require them. Nobody else was building them. Moreover, we always claim the need of a two-Power standard for defence. Germany, whose army is her sole defence against invasion, has no two-Power standard. It is deplor-
[ able that two great progressive nations like Britain and Germany should be unable to establish a good understanding. We have done this with France, Russia and America. Why should .we not rope Germany iri? (Cheers) i. The money spent on armaments might then be spent in fighting ■ intemperance, ignorance, crime and disease, which are worse enemies than Germany."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9301, 30 July 1908, Page 1
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