"War inevitable"

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12732, 30 March 1909, Page 5

"War inevitable"

Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., the secretary of the Labour party, speaking at West Hartlepool last month, declared that increase in armaments and battleships by the great Powers was going to end in. war. He described the competition in armaments as a game of "beggar my neighbour," and said it was simply a question, which country was going hrst into bankruptcy, and no country was going into the bankruptcy court without a fight. Every British army and naval officer, and especially every naval C/fficer, felt war was inevitable, and wanted it to come now because we were best prepared for it, and every naval officer Germany had got also felt war was inevitable, and was hurrying on preparations.