HOUSE OF COMMONS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA-IILE ASSOCIATION. disakaiaafent debate. (Received this dav at 1-30 p.m.) LOXIMtt. -Inly 23. In the Commons, Mr Ramsay McDonald initiated a debate on disarmament. with a motion deplorin': the enormous growing expenditure on military pieparations, and urging the Government to take immediate steps to c all an international conference to consider a programme of national safety, based on policy that by disarmament alone could the peace and liberty of small and lar' r e nations be secured. One colossal follv for which the Government must he held seriously responsible was the wild wanton escapade of Singapore The pledge given at the beginning of the great war that the war was to end war. had become the most sacred of all pledges to the dead. Any party in lie House or outside that ventured to p G with tho pledge broke faith wit 1 millions who died.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1923, Page 3
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152HOUSE OF COMMONS. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1923, Page 3
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