DISARMAMENT PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17246, 5 November 1927, Page 7

DISARMAMENT PROBLEM

BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. LIMITATION GREATLY DESIRED. BUT CAUTION NEEDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Nov. 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. Lord Cushenden (Mr Ronald McNeill), who has succeeded Viscount Coci! as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and who has recently been raised to the peerage, in his first speech since his promotion to Cabinet rank, said he was conscious of a difficulty in following Viscount Cecil, of whom he was a sincere admirer, but ha believed that Britons of aii parties were quit© as convinced as Viscount Cecil of the necessity for a limitation of armaments by international agreement. He added: “ Two years’ experience In the Treasury has convinced me that stupendous relief for the taxpayers and a stimulus to trade can be provided if we are able to divert to productive channels tho money necessarily spent on armaments. Britain has already made large reductions, but war would not be impossible even if the world’s armaments were reduced to vanishing point, so long as skill, materials, and a basis for the production of weapons existed. Peace must be endangered unless disarmament is both moral and material.”