BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

[“Tub Timi.s” Skkvici-..J roil AND AGAINST TIIK LE AG UK. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, l'Vb. At. Mr Arthur Henderson, in an electioneering speech at Burnley, said the outstanding fact of the international situation was that peace treaties haw* failed. All who value the world's peace must insist upon a revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Ihe auLhois of that Treaty had flouted history and transformed the struggle for the emancipation of the-peoples, and the establishment of a reign ol law into an actual war of conquest. Moreover, its provisions were designed to extract impossible sums from the defeated countries, on the erroneous assumption that the economic life of some countries could bo destroyed without affecting the economic life of others. Mr Henderson added that he wanted the public to understand where the Government stood in this matter. Mr Asquith speaking at Plymouth, said the only instrument by which eeoomic reconstruction could he effectively dealt with, was the recognition, by the whole of the countries of the world, the authority of the League of Nations, which would not be what it ought to be until our kinsmen across the sea were associated with' it in