VOLUNTARY DISARMAMENT BRITAIN’S AIM AND DESIRE.
Heuter's Telegrams. GENEVA, May 20. At a sitting of the disarmament committee, Lord Cecil warmly approved of the declaration of Count Bernstorff that the League of Nations had entirely changed the aspect of the question of disarmament, lie said he could not imagine any circumstances in which the British Government would make war against any member of the League or any civilised Power, except in pursuance of the Covenant, unless there should be an actual attack on the British Empire, which was not within contemplation at all. lie believed that whatever government was in power in England that would certainly be its policy, and the people of the country would permit no other. The British Government earnestly desjred every country to proceed with voluntary disarmament. They must get down to definite practical proposals. .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17853, 22 May 1926, Page 27 (Supplement)
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