PREVENTION OF WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 May 1928, Page 5

PREVENTION OF WAR.

POLICY OF BRITAIN. OUTLINED BY MR BALDWIN. Press Association-Electric Teleurapb-Copyright J.ONDON, Tuesday. ■Mr Baldwin, acknowledging a petition containing a hundred thousand signatures, asking for the acceptance of the 1919 standard of disarmament as a basis of general disarmament, wrote to the National 'Council for the Prevention of War, stating that the maintenance of peace and preventionof war inspired the wholo foreign policy of the Government. He hoped still further to reduce armaments through common action and agreement with other nations. If Britain alone proceeded further to disarm, he said, there was no guarantee that others would follow her example, and no British Government dare run this risk. It would make her a prey to hostile forces, excite cupidity and hostile intention, and encourage instead of preventing war. Further slops in disarmament must be the result of combined action of all countries. The Government will eo-operate in work of this nature, but It is impossible to pledge in advance that any given standard of disarmament will be adopted.—Australian Press Association. —United Service.