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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1933, Page 5

a statement, said that he had not decided to resign, but his position was a most unsatisfactory one. The tragedy, he said, began with the Si noJapanese dispute. The re-armament of the United States, and the strengthening of the armaments in Australia had New Zealand had all been repercussions of Britain’s failure to load the League of Nations against the Japanese. Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour) said that on the basis of costs, Britain had not disarmed. Her pre-war expenditure on armaments was seventy-mil-lions sterling a year, but it bad grown to 108 millions in 1933. Sir John Simon, replying to the censure debate said, amidst Labour interruptions .that Sir Stafford Cripps had been brazening out former misrepresentations, Britain’s pre-war army expenditure was eighty million a year, and the changed value of money today accounted for the 1933 figures. Britain’s disarmament proposals in 1932 were too much for the Geneva Conference. They were whittled down to a meagre shadow. He added: “AVo are still seeking an agreement that would secure equality for Germany.” Labour’s censure motion was defeated by 409 to 44.