DISARMAMENT ISSUE.
BRITAIN'S POLICY. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Associg.ion.) LONDON, May 22. Mr Baldwin, the Prime Minister, in reply lo a petition in'favour of disarmament slated that the British policy was tho maintenance of peace c.nd the prevention of war. Disarmament, however, must be through common action of the Nations. Britain dare lot run the risk of further disarming with no guarantee that other Nations would follow her example. Sir Austen Chamberlain, lhe British Foreign Minister, replying to a lion regarding the conclusion of an' Arbitration and Conciliation Treaty between America and Britain, slated that such a treaty, (signed in 1914) was already in force. ~ ■
He saw no reason why this treaty, or the conciliation treaty now being negotiated between the United States and a number of foreign countries, should be abrogated if, as he hoped would be the case, the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war became an accomplished fact.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17409, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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