PLEA FOR FRIENDSHIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 10

PLEA FOR FRIENDSHIP.

FIRST LORD’S SPEECH. ■ | FEAR-HAUNTED WORLD # 'LONDON, July 27. | A plea for an understanding witli Italy was made by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Duff Cooper, in a speech at Pencatiland, Scotland. He had great hopes, he said, that might be induced to sign the London Naval Treaty of 1936 (which limits the sizes of ships and guns, but not of navies). The First Lord said he held the hope, although it was only a year sined Britain .had been applying sanctions! against Italy, the time had come td let* bygones be bygones, and seek to restore the happy relations that had so long existed between Italy and Britain. The same fear haunted the world as before 1914, said Mr Duff Cooper, in surveying the outlook generally. In spite of prosperity at home and Imperial solidarity, there loomed up a dark cloud full of horrible possibilities; If the Government followed tlie adr vice of the Opposition, the British people would find themselves not fights ing the insurgents of General Franco; but one of the Great Powers of Europe.!