PERMANENT PEACE.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17751, 1 July 1929, Page 7

PERMANENT PEACE.

LABOUR’S AMBITIONS. LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS. OF FINE, FAIR STRUCTURE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (By Telegraph—Press Association.) LONDON, June 29. In a speech at the diamond jubilee dinner of the Co-operative Printing Society the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, said:— “One section of our work is international peace. We are working away at it. We are trying to lay the foundations of what will be the finest and fairest fabric any Government has ever built.

“It is . said that we are losing time. We are not, for the policy we are pursuing is ‘the greater the haste the less the speed.’ We will not enter into any peace conferences without preliminary preparations that will avoid a failure such as that of 1927.

“There must be preparation before demonstration. This Government is not going to demonstrate until there is something to demonstrate about.” The Sunday Express says it understands Mr. MacDonald has definitely decided to go to Washington to meet the President of the United States, Mr. Hoover, this summer, probably in August. Their discussions will be confined, says the paper, to a permanent peace pact between Britain and the United States.

The suggestion has been made by the United Slates Government to Britain that the naval disarmament question should be approached with caution in view of the present status problem. There is a feeling of uneasiness in official circles at Washington that a conference of the naval Powers might result in failure unless there is sufficient preparation. It was learned this evening that the United States Government has been informally approached by Britain as to its altitude towards a conference of the naval Powers, either separate from tho Preparatory Commission on Disarmament of the League of Nations or under the machinery of the League.