RELUCTANCE TO DISARM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)

RELUCTANCE TO DISARM

• We in England,” said Professor iilbert Murray, in a recent speech, ■should make it as clear as we can hat we seriously do want disarmament, would even go further. Governments ave all of them made tremendous procssions in expressing their devotion to he cause of disarmament. If they go o Geneva and build other new buildups in order to discuss disarmament, pend six months talking about it and hen spend another six months talking bout it again, and then leave the im•ression in the end that they are not alking the truth and that during that ini e they have been lying to us, 1 want hem to realise that in the present state if the world it will be an extremely i.tngerous situation. 1 do not believe it at the demociacies of the world will tay patient if they believe that their lovernments arc not sincere in this relit matter. A factor which we should .-ali.se is that all the reluctance to disrm comes from the great Powers, . hirh is quite natural. They do not ike to agree to arbitration because they ie brought down on an equality with her nations; they do not like reducing .maments because the smaller nations ■ • placed on an equality with them, 'he unanimous desire for a reduction if armaments and for peace comes from he middle size and smaller nations of he world. If we speak to our Governnents we can have at the back of our iiinds the knowledge that we have with is the public opinion of the enormous