NOT TOO LATE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 5

NOT TOO LATE

(Press Assn.

for disarmament MR ARTHUR HENDERSON FOR FURTHER BRITISH , GESTURE STRENGTHENING LEAGUE .

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

(Rec. Dec. 28, 9 p.m.) London, Dec. 28. The Rt. Hon. A. Henderson, chairman of the Disarmament Conference, in ari article in the Nineteerith Century, discusses the possibility of a world agreement which would strengthen national security and im-. prove political relationships. Ho said that Britain should not reject any constructive proposals for strengthening the League but should welcome any suggestion to secure the permanent co-operation of the-United States and the Soviet in the League. j The primary need was a bold policy | to make the existing treaty obligations a reality. The policy of scrapping the collective peace system was impossible. • Tho system must be made to work. ! If we refused risks and sacrifices, j in the interests of peace we should not be practising safety first but moving toward an Armaggedon. I The basic risk that Britain must j tako was in regard to armaments. If I a new race in armaments began, it i would overshadow the possibility of j ! a breakdown of the collective peace | | system. Bigger armaments would not j | agive peace !therefore it was only , j commonsense, even at the present ' j late hour, to seek a prqgressive re- ! J duction of armaments.