DANGER TO PEACE.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 4

DANGER TO PEACE.

1 ALARMING FORECASTS.” . -I--' WARLIKE SPIRIT GROWING. (Prom a Correspondent) LONDON, October 4. Speaking at Wandsworth, Mr Sydney Webb, M.P., said the world was nc-t by any means free from the dances* of a new outbreak of war. lie did not think that Mr Baldwin was, _so foolish or so wicked as 'to want or intend to go to \var, hut several times since the last war there had been a grave danger of a new outbreak. The “warlike spirit was growing. There were 10,000,000 more soldiers in -arms in Europe, than before the Outbreak of the last war. It was therefore very important that tlie Government should adopt a peaceful policy and turn its back deliberately on the idea of war. Lord Cecil, a real believer in the League of Nations; and a • supporter of peace, had been com- - celled to resign from Mr Baldwin’s - Cabinet on the ground that the Government was not adopting the-right policy to maintain peace in the world. Mr J. It. Clyncs, M.P. speaking at a Labour meeting at Hackney, said that If there was good ground for the alarming forecasts of a future war expressed in many quarters, and just reneated by Mr. Lloyd - George and Lord Cecil, these forecasts constituted the -finest reason for reposing con- . fldenee .and power in the Labour and Socialist Parties of Europe. War must be alienated by the genuine and disinterested acceptance of disarmament as a condition which would make the machinery of the League of Nations ;4 ; work. It may bo that 1 lussia could bo classed among nations which were to blame. But no policy which made • Russia an outcast, or which sought to wreck the economic plans which Russia now pursued, could maim for peace or friendship. r ihe hostility tc Russia was helping to bring the. world to the brink of an overthrow, and those who pursued that policy did noi disguise their sympathy with efforts ic other parts -pf Europe to destroy democracy and representative institutions. ' ■ j —■ ■ ""g