CAUSE OF PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 7

CAUSE OF PEACE

BRITAIN MUST LEAD. TTSE OF AHMED STRENGTH. EARL DE LA WARR’S VIEW. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right A Received January 17, 11.45 a.m. ADELAIDE, Jan. 17. Earl de la Warr (Lord Privy fjjeal), addressing the returned soldiers, said that some countries were acting as though they did not care whether tliere was a war or not. The British Commonwealth must show the world that it was determined to use its strength in tho cause of peace. Lord De La Warr will represent _ the British Government at the 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Ho will begin his return journey on the Empire flying route on February 19. He told the London correspondent of tho Sydney Morning Herald before leaving England that lie hoped to sec enough of Australia to enable him to toll his influential friends what conditions there were like and what the people really though on the domestic and international problems. A tall, slight man, aged 37, ho looks rather like a naval officer, which is less surprising when lie tells you that ho served in the war as a deckhand in a mine-sweeper. _ For eight or nine year's he. held office in the Government, five years of which period lie was at the Ministry of Agriculture. (The rest of the time was spent at the War Office, the Board of Education, and the Colonial Office.)