WORLD PEACE PLAN.
Nobel Prize Winner’s Nine Points. CUT IN ARMAMENTS. NEW YORK, December 12. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, in a radio address, on accepting the NobelPeace Prize, presented to the world a programme for peace consisting of nine points. I The principal items were:— The abolition of compulsory military training. The discarding of battleships, destroyers and other fighting craft, and the maintenance of only a peace navy. The development, with the League of Nations, of a plan for safeguarding the peoples of the Orient. Dr Butler advocated for the United States the substitution of a Department of National Defence for the present War and Navy Departments and the other military branches of the Government.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 1
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