NAVIES AND PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1929, Page 6

NAVIES AND PEACE

MR COOLIDGE’S VIEW'.

'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW YORK, April 28

Ex-President Coolidge, in an article in “The Ladies’ Home Journal,” discusses “the promotion of peace through limitation of armaments.” During the course of the article he says: “Men will not long recognise the sword as the major source of authority. The time has gone when any one nation is likely to he able to control the sea. To set up that claim would only cause friction, and to pursue that claim would only be a delusion. The question of naval parity partakes of the same nature. B'o much depends upon the men behind the guns, and upon the courage and skill with which they are commanded that a seeming paper parity would be decisive.”

“ Our commerce and commitments abroad nre so large tlmt tliev need n navy 'for tlieir protection without much reference to the size of the navies of other countries. The hope of gainin'! absolute security through armaments is another delusion. More security will he found in a moderate force which menaces nobody than in a gieat ! *oi e menacing everybody. If the world wishes to he relieved of taxes, it will insist on the summary limitation of the present scale of armaments. Peace will never he made permanent by tear alone. It must have its main foundation in justice and goodwill, that is strong 'enough to satisfy the reason and the conscience of humanity.”