MUST BE COVENANT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 5

MUST BE COVENANT

ARMAMENT MEANS WAR Genieva, Oetober 16. "The struggle for disarmlament must proceed. The covenant must not be treated as a scrap of paper," said Mr. A. Henderson, in replying to a deputation from last, night's international demonstration. "However just its cause, and good its intentions, no Government can be trusted to remain loyal to peace if it flouts the collective peace system to which the world is pledged. "As long as each nation remains the judge of its own rights and is frce to arai as it pleases, wai* will be inevitable. "The Versailles Treaty is no worse and no better than previous settlements, but it is typlcal of what happens when war is employed to redrcss grievances. "The gravity of the prssent situation does not lessen the necessity for a disarmament convention." The abrupt decision of the German Government to abandon the Disarmamcnt Conference will be formally communicated to the General Commission of the Conference this afternoon. A telegram received by Mr. A. Henderson, as president, from Baron von Neurath, announccd that Germany's decision will be placed before the Commission.