PREVENTING WAR

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 April 1935, Page 5

PREVENTING WAR

COLLECTIVE SECURITY MR BALDWIN’S VIEWS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, Tuesday. Mr Stanley Baldwin, owing to an engagement in Wales, was unable to attend yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. He spoke last night at Llandrindod Wells, and referred to the outlook in international politics. At times, he said, he felt that he. was living in a madhouse. A great attempt was made at Versailles to redraw, tlie map of Europe and to allow for differences, so far as they were concerned with ethnology. Wise and just though it might have been, that attempt had not been accepted by all to whom the settlement was applied. ' "We fought the war, to make the world safe for democracy,” he said, "and the world is not safe for democracy and all that that word means today.” He had not lost hope yet in the limitation of armaments, he added, and he would stick to Germany on that subject until she had declared that she .would not have anything to do with it.. "But if she or any other country will not consider these things, then T think tho situation becomes far more difficult. I would say this —this country does not want war, and does not mean to have war, and if war can only be stopped by letting the aggressor know that war will not be permitted in Europe, this country will play her part, I am convinced, with the rest of Europe to sec that no aggression shall take place. Collective security is a. difficult subject. AVe do not know, we> cannot tell, what form if may take, but as one who has been studying and working on this question throughout bad times through many years, i am driven to the eonelusion that the best way we have of ensuring peace is by some means of collective security, and to that end, inside the League of Nations, the whole of Europe must get together to play its part and devise means by which this great end can be achieved." —British Wireless.