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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 2

, DISARMAMENT IN SIMPLE ENGLISH. ‘‘General Dawes lias begun bis task s United States Ambassador well, as ,'oryone expected lie would,” says tho Evening News ” of London. There s one passage in his sneeeli oil naval .mitation to the Pilgrims that shoulr fcnnd as tho golden guide to th tatesmon who will be responsible foi lie coming fresh negotiations between lis country and ours. He was speakng of the ‘Anal agreement’ ; and then said, it ‘ should be couched in those simple terms understandable to the orUnary man in the street.-’ There must ie no want of preparation on this pronising occasion—‘the real fool is the man who makes the same mistake twice,’ as the proverb says. For there s even more at stake than the removal of the burden of armament from die bowed shoulders of the British citizen. At the end of the road there is the goal oif world pence. As Mr MacDonald is careful to state, there is pothing exclusive about the table at which wo and our American friends are to sit. There are chairs for the other, nations who value peace as we do.”