APPEAL TO YOUTH
LLOYD GEORGE ON WAR SPIRIT EUROPE’S "SECRET DRINKING." THE TEMPTATION OF AWW (By Telegraphs—Press Association!-)) - LONDON - , July 20—A striking warn'•fug to youth to combine against tHc 'war spirit was issued by Mr. Lloyd' George in a speech at the World Convention of the Christian Endeavour Union. He said lie belonged to a class winch was brought up in a world in which' armaments with occasional wars were regarded as part of the grim essentials of human civilisation. A more. horrible', devastating, and greater war had yet to come unless youth, tore that idea from the heart of civilisation. It had been said that it was the old men who made the wars in which the young men were killed. It was not so. He could never forget the days of 1914' when Whitehall was thronged with young men clamouring for war. When the war spirit came, it swept over all ages and classes. “Youth," he continued, “must get away from that idea; otherwise I warn you that the last waar will not be the greatest that will be raged." Peace was impossible' without disarmament. Armies were a temptation to any nation. -Despite the world war, there were greater armies in Europe to-day than ever befbre. Europe had drunk armaments until 1 sire got delirium tremens in 1914, and she 1 was going on secretly drinking now;—(A\ and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 22 July 1926, Page 5
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231APPEAL TO YOUTH Wairarapa Age, 22 July 1926, Page 5
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