WORLD PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1931, Page 3

WORLD PEACE

Mil HENDEttSONVS LECTURE IN : LONDON , g NATIONS .MUST DISARM.

(Official Wireless.) "" RUGBY, June 4. .. The. Foreign: Secretary, (Mr';Arthur •Henderson;.’delivered'Vthe Burge Memorial lecture in London to-night, his subject' being, , “Consolidated World ti’euce.” fie declared that in respect of every forward policy in the last twelve years, tile public opinion or the nations had always been ahead or what the. Governments were prepared to do. ‘ ’

As it had .been with moral disarmament, 1 ' so, ; he7was convinced, it would be with physicial disarmament as-yvell. His only fear was that the people would not understand the chaMCe 'Avhich'• next year’s Disarmament Conference presented them, and they would not make their delegations to the conference understand that they could not be too bold, or go too far. “My pirn fear if that the nations will not show th© Governments in time that they can count upon support for all reductions in armaments, however drastic, to which 1 the conference may agree, ’.’ he* said. , r ; The y world myst . Lie. organised for peace: ais it had been organised for war and 'the peace-makers must direct the force's of public opinion towards deliberately planrted and carefully concerted effort, if the awful ‘calamity ‘ of another world tragedy—fought under still more terrible conditions than the laSt—was to'-be averted. .Mr Henderson' referred • to < the strengthening of the general authority and pestige of the League of Nations and declared that, the day was near, if it had not already come, when it should be unthinkable that a nation should refuse to submit its quarrels either to the League Council, or to arbitration. Experience suggested that world peace could no longer be guar aiiteed by:armaments- and that modern warfare could no longer be localised. Terrible as the last-war had been, any further; war.must.be infinitely worse.

; bMake ho mistake,” he said, “unless by successive and. it may be, gradual stages,, we can bring about the disarmament of the world innocent people .will then Be the. victims of deadly attack from the air.”