THE MENACE OF ANOTHER WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2252, 17 March 1921, Page 4

THE MENACE OF ANOTHER WAR.

The possibility of another European war was discussed recently by Viscount Grey in a speech in Glasgow. “It is. essential that there should not be another war," lie said, “and therefore we must see that there does not. grow up again in Europe the state of things thete waf+ before the late war. I am as strong as anybody can be on the point that we ought to maintain'the closest possible relations with our late Allies, especially with France and Italy. I say nothing about the United Stales for the moment, because the United States is waiting for a declaration of policy from its newlv-elected President. that policy is declared I think any attempt to anticipate what line the United States may take, and still more any attempt to influence that line, would be perfectly futile and probably mischievous. Maintain the closest possible relations- with those countries. Make that the basis, the foundation, the starting of our policy, but not for what happened in Europe before the war. Ibe Triple Alliance made by Germany after JS7O brought into existence

the Franeo-Kimsian Alliance, which led to competition in armaments. If wc let things take the same course again in spile of the warnings of Ibis year we should have the same result. What is absolutely necessary is to keep some council of the nations together. Keep them in (ouch. Keep your relations, with your allies, but watch for any tendency toward a growth of competition in armaments, and when any nation is beginning to force the pace in that competition tlion, let the conned of the nations prevent it growing up us before the war. Some people say that in a league of nations there will not lie any certainty. There will not be a certainly, but l am quite convinced that if you have another war 20 years hence it "ill be infinitely worse than the recent war, and it will destroy the civilisation of Europe. If you tell me the League of Nations is Utopia, the answer I give is that I prefer the chance of Utopia to the certainty of destruction."