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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1933, Page 4

Lon.u Lothian, speaking at a National Liberal Club luncheon on the relations of the United States''of Ainerca with the outside world, said he believed that before long tin. United States was going to become economically an Imperialist nation. To-day the United States was more isolationist, more indifferent to the- rest of the world than it had been in this century. Thertj were, however, growing symptoms that the economic factor was going to change the United States generlal isolationist tradition in the way that the political factor, had never done. The broad programme of a planned national economy employing everybody i n the United States, and only buying products which could not be made inside the country, could only be put through if the United States produced something like a Communist Administration, and there was no people in the world farther away from Socialism and Communism. We were suffering, Lord Lothian added., from international anarchy. Our problems were insoluble except in proportion t 0 the way we attacked the anarchy of the modern world. People said that democracy was failing. Democracy was not falling, but no democracy could exist under modern day anarchy. Were dictatorships making ally greater success in the problem of unemployment? They were simply tackling it with a brutality which was impossible under the dexnooatic system. The question of disarmament was the same. So long as we lived in an anarchic wor-kl we had to rely on some form of armaments for our security. We did not want armaments, but we did want security. He. hoped that the Disarmament Conference, which had not been a very great success up to the present, would before long be followed by an Economic Disarmament Conference.