PEACE IN PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA'S DESIRE
PRINCIPLES'OF WASHINGTON
RENEWAL PROPOSED
ITnltcd Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received June 8, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. Replying to the toast of his health at a luncheon of the Foreign Press Association at the Savoy Hotel at which the Press of almost the whole world was represented, Mr. J. A. Lyons, Prime of Australia, said that the ■ Commonwealth was directly concerned in the Pacific, in which it had proposed a pact of nonaggression. Australia desired to live in peace with her neighbours. Unfortunately the equilibrium established under the Washington Treaties was somewhat dissipated. Australia, faced with a new set of circumstances, wanted to renew the principles underlying those treaties and believed that other nations were equally anxious for peace, and so had proposed a pact. Australia did not ask for any special commitments, except that all should denounce war as a means for settling differences and agree to meet around a table and discuss problems and accept the principle of non-aggression. Personally he believed it was possible of achievement.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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174PEACE IN PACIFIC Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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