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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 4

SHOULD HUSK]A SIGN THE PEACE PACT. “ Tt .seems to me that it is essential that Russia should also heeome signatory to the declaration (says General Smuts in the “Cape Times”). It would be vain to organise for world peace and leave out Hussia. She is the greatest potential factor in the peace of Europe and Asia, probably for a century to come. In view of Russia's recent offer of total or partial disarmament at Geneva, she will probably be only tod anxious to be associated with declaration, even if, like the United States, she will not become a member of the League. Association through the declaration may, in the end, mean the same thing for pome as membership of the League, and thus the declaration'will, and ought to, bring into the peace movement both the Powers which, though not in the League, wil yet have the greatest innueiice for good or ill on the future peace of the world. With all Central and Eastern Europe and Hussia in the League or

ihe declaration—or both—the disarmament movement, which has been beating the air recently, will once more become a reality, and, indeed, enter upon an entirely new and most promising phase.”