DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1921, Page 1

DISARMAMENT

t j >; |<\l.l AN AND N.Z. CARLH ASSOCIATION. 1.1.0 YD GEORGE’S PLANS. LONDON. Nov. ! At I- Lloyd George »ill nm 'go to Washington on Sat unlay, but lie slid hopes to go later. DELEGATES REACH WASHINGTON NEW YORK. Nov. I 1.01(1 Lee • Itiilaiii), AD Sunivam India), Signori Seliazer. Ricci and Alheriini < Italy) ami Air Wellington Ivon i('liina) vlelegates to the Washington coiiierem e liaw ai rived n\ t!ie Olv nianie. Lord Lee, in a -ta i 1 ment.

, : ,i,| ; "I have not lbc slightes; «l<»ul,t dial the Wasliin-.-.lon (G uV I e,u e will achieve’ gieat results So the came whereon world |>oaoo de|vemls. Ihe world lias learned Die lesson that militarisiu, wherever situated, and however entrenched, is a meiia-e to eivilisa;ioli, ‘and must lie given notice lo

quit. I am mu piennieil even to '"U----t... .piai" 1 .he possibilities of a failure of Picsident Harding’s claims. My highest and most pcrsisleiu aao itioas have been to coiitiihute somclliiug prucDcal lo Die cause of closer uiulci sta mliugs ml ,---ope-a!ion bctr-.'-cii the English speaking peoples. Tl- Ibi'Mi <h'le-,,;iH-s will conic to Washington vvitli a p.solve that, short of compromising on Die sal'i-tv of their Empire or the sea security, on which its very existence depends, a betrayal oi our ancientheritage of which they could never lie gaiUyT they will go Co almost any I Migtlis to meet the other great naval powers in a mutual and proportionate eii'ort in relieve their respective peoples from Die intolerable burden of competitive armaments.