PREMIER’S VISION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1932, Page 3

PREMIER’S VISION

THE DISARMAMENT PARLEY

GENEVA, May 1

Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s first .public utterance here disabused mem-, hers of the International Association of Journalists, his luncheon hosts yesterday, of the long-standing impression that delegates to .the Disarmament Conference were incapable of presenting new ideas. Mr MacDonald riveted attention by his first words, in which he drew a parallel between the Creation and the conference.

He ha id that the first day produced consideration of a world without form or void; accompanied by a mere general resolution, whereupon the worthy archangel Michael observed, “This is slow.”'

The second day saw the division of the earth from the waters, with some reference to the creation of an expert committee provoking the archangel to deprecate superfluous compromise. The fifth day saw a widespread revolt culminate in revolution and the expulsion of the rebels, as Lucifer was expelled' from Heaven. Then the imperturbable powers of creation wiped their brows and said. “Create man,” and on the sixth dayman was created.

■ Mr MacDonald prophesied that their ,sixth day would come, on which work would be accomplished worthy of,„being recorded in the most illustrious pages of history. 'Signor Grand! (Italy) facetious-yl claimed for Italy the first recorded limitation of armaments', when only three men—Hoimtius, Herminiuis and Spurius Lartius—camrcled the bridge and barred Lars Por-sena-’s entry into Rome.