WORLD PEACE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 26 October 1927, Page 9

WORLD PEACE.

PRESENT ARMAMENTS A BREACH OF FAITH. MR LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH. t ET CABLE—PRESS ASSOCU'I !ON rOrTnlrtHT.) tAUSTSALIAX AKD V.Z.. ASD SUS CABLE.; (Received October 2otli, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 21. speaking at a League of Nations Union meeting at the' Queen's Hall, Mr Lloyd George said: •'When Austria, Gcrnu'.ny, and Bulgaria were disarmed, the Allies undertook to follow their example. Nevertheless to-day the Allies' forces number 10,00U,00U and are infinitely more formidably equipped than in 11)1-1." Great armaments, he declared, would always thwart the League, and consequently the present European armaments were a gross breach of faith with those nations which had entered the war to uphold the sanctity ot treaties. "The present European snarls arc seriously alarming the smaller States," he said. "The Balkans are always fizzing, sometimes spluttering, and occasionally exploding. "Russia i 3 sulking in the background, resenting exclusion from the society of nations where she was onco received with deference. She is increasing her strength every year. She is angry because she has been robbed of her provinces and is ready to hit back. With tho chances of this bristling everywhere, I attach the greatest importance to restoring Russia to the fraternity of nations, because she will bo the most redoubtable nation on earth when she emerges from her internal entanglements. "Another war is inevitable and will be more terrible than any in the past unless the nations determine to seek justice for protection for established right and not force. Only the League can straighten out the situation, but a League which excludes questions which are inconvenient to powerful nations is a sham and a snare and sooner or later will be fatal to European peace."