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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1933, Page 4

In a speech at Oxford, Lord Cecil sai(d that there was .‘appearing in Britain as elsewhere a recrudescence of the old conception of relying on one’s own strength and the belief that the only way to preserve peace was to prepare for war. The growth of that feeling was a great danger. It was the more dangerous because it seemed to be almost entirely confined to certain sections of political opinions—the political opinion of the. Right. It’ was important that the question of international • relations, and particularly of the League, should not become part of the policy of any party. Dealing with the suggestion that the League of Nations Union was inclined to lean to the left, Lord Cecl said:—“We desire to remain apart from politics,' but parties fnust help us, and it is not our fault if a section of one party begins to attack us so strongly that we have to counter the views of that party. If we are to remain, as we hope we shall remain, free from any party, we must ask the leaders of the parties to give us their help.” The League of Nations Union, he'added, stood for the policy of peace, and was bound to support that without regard tip what effect its advocacy would have on aiiy political party, Lord Cecil added that those, who supplied armaments were only too ready to increase unrest. The profits of armament firms were rapidly rising. He beloved It to be one of the most essential parts of any plan for the peace of the world that they, should take away the element of profit from the manufacture of armaments. If countries broke, international obligations the other countries must say they were prepared, to put into force certain economic sanctions. Such a sanction would he the refusal by all the countries of the world to accept imports from the country concerned. He believed that no country in the world could possibly resist-that in th s . long run.