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New Zealand Tablet, 24 November 1921, Page 25

LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS

A modern Government is confronted with two imperative demands if the country is progressive (says the London Catholic Times editorially). The one is for retrenchment in expenditure. The other is for increased expenditure on genuine public services. There is but one way of meeting them, and that is to lift the burden of armaments off the shoulders of the workers. It is necessary that every friend of peace should help to mobilise public opinion so that the utmost pressure may be put on the representatives of the various countries attending the Washington Conference to influence them to achieve this result. It is a small achievement that is sought, but it is worth something to gain a material lightening of a burden that has become intolerable. We have won but recently a great war. What have we to show for all the sacrifices? A few miserable profiteers on the one hand, and, on the other, an impoverished nation not a whit more secure than it was in 1914 before the outbreak of the war. Perhaps the world will yet hearken to" the words of our Holy Father. : 'j ' , , " ; ;;: : . -v. ■ . ) ■'•':■ .