APPEAL FOR PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1929, Page 2

APPEAL FOR PEACE

(tinted .frew Association -By Electric ■: 'Rdegraph—Copyright). : .. , % NEW YORK, October 11. . The Prime Minister, Mr ltam.say MijoPoyald, ijri \ aft < address? before the Cpftncil of Iforeign Relations to-night, macje, aft nj>peal to - mankind to : enthrone peace over tlie world. ' : SjpOakiitg with marftftd' earnestness in \yhat ift pbably ftviH, be his last publlc .fttterujue here on his historic i meeting with the President, Mr -MacRonpld warned his hearers that much remained before the’peoples of all natioms would, relinqiiish' lftilitary security fop. political _ security.: ■■ Ho again emphasised the fact that his negotiations: with the United'! States have been entirely in the open and he took occasion to rebuke ' “a; few voices” whic)n I>o saift, ~liad been charging that an. Anglo-American alliance had been entered' jnto at Washington. Describing; 'lifts • negotiations with Gftnoml Rawes (U.iS.A., Minister to Dri|ftin)’,’ Mr,, MacDonald said:— ‘‘Everything was conducted in a gloss house, wlftft'no secrecy,' and; no curtains ; and from that day to this, our '‘negotiations have been 'conducted by' men who wish to live an open life, •and have fto desire to pursue a secret one. We have declared that no war cpn tgfte place' between us. We fyaye declared rftftre thou ..'that; name* iy, that We cannpt conceive any thv cftmstances under* which the armed forpei of the United. States and Britain can come into conflict,'! The apeeah was a summing up of his:visit,"eftd. an analysis of,the fruits pf iiis mteion- , ' .Mr MocPonfdd spoke bluntly at tiftiea, anti ' fitp 1 theme J was developed as the efttftjusiatm Of his distinguished audience-—one of tjie largest dinner gatherings in the history ftf New York —mounted (steadily. Speafting 'of an agreement for peace, ): he said: “This is a problem pf statesmanship;' ' Chi the one hand, you get fyouf moral, disarmament seti- " .tftftent'which, is ■ with ■ you; resolutions ■ that: ■ read fair? and; sound 'are; carried * ppanimouily j, v but. ; the moinen t you’' start to ' apply them for the pur- • poses .of transferring ihe mentalities lof ' the.'people, : from,.the ment’allty of military security to the' 'mentality of ' political'security, then the poor states, .man'is’beset a thousand and one exceedingly • intricate prphlepis.”