If War Conies?
POLITICIANS TO BLAME j MR. J. A. LYONS’ OPINION (By Telegraph -Press Association - Copyright) ; Received July .19, 8.35 p.m. VICTORIA (8.C.), July 18. “If war comes it will have been caused by the politicians and not by i the people.” said Air J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, to-day, before leaving en route to San Fran- ; cisco. “1 am sura war thoughts do not i spring from thy hearts of the people in I any ’country. Wo should take all the i Government heads once a year to the I 1 battlefields of France and let them meditate. While you in Canada have not completed the great war memorial, neither have we. It is unbelievable. ' that, countries would wish to go to wa r.' ’ Mr Lyons urged closer friendship ' and a more equitable scale of trade relations between Canada and Australia. Ho believed that better Pacific relations would bring more stable world confidence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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