FATAL TO VICTORS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 694, 21 November 1933, Page 5

FATAL TO VICTORS

(British Official Wireless.)

WOULD PROBABLY MEAN END OF EUROPEAN CIVILISATION MR. BALDWIN'S STATEMENT

(Rec. November 20.) iRugby, Nov. 18. In a speech at Edinburgh, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said. "There are two facts that are burned into our minds. In the age in which we live war is as fatal for the victors as for the conquered. The seeond point is that anoth'er (Eiuropean war would be the end of Western civilisation as we know it. In these circumstances what can any Government do but what the British Government is doing — :struggling without ceasing' to attain agreement in the European limitation of arms? "The absence of Germany, and the attitude of Italy, as reported in the press, are real political difficulties, Germany withdrew from the conference and from Geneva at a moment when the hope of getting' agreement burned brighter than at any time since the question of disarmament

was entered upon. Our duty is to leave no stone unturned to overcome these political difficulties, and resume our task of working out, even at the eleventh hour, a convention for the limitation of armaments."