DISARMAMENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 233, 25 May 1932, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

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i/vorld's chief hope ^onfidence cannot retiirn till political tension eased - 1MP0RTANCE OF OTTAWA

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Rec. May 24, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The Times, discussing the Geneva, ausanne and Ottawa Conferences, ays: "To abandon hope of agreement t Geneva would be to abandon Hope f * reversing the present drift to eeoomic stagnation. Confidence will'not a restored nntil the existing political msion is relieved by an agreement slating to armaments. "A substantial step toward disarmaent is a necessary condition for the sttlement of inter-governmental difrences, which are paralysirig trade. "If the Geneva and Lausanne conrences fail, the world will have to i through further and sharper triilations before it ean establish a new [uilibrium. In that event, Ottawa ust secure for that quarter of the Drld under the British' ' flag, the sans to maintain an even protection id trade. Ottawa has an advantage er Lausanne, in that the Govern2nts participating are accustomed work together. "Howevei*, the Ottawa Empire Conrence must be able to claim, in the >rds of Pitt, that 'The British Em-i-e saved itself by its own exertions, d by its example will be able to ve the world'."