NEW PEER SPEAKS ABOUT WORLD PEACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 9

NEW PEER SPEAKS ABOUT WORLD PEACE

"MORAL AND MATERIAL” VIEWS OF CECIL S SUCCESSOR By Cable.—rrcss Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.1 S a.m. LONDON, Friday. Mr. Ronald McNeill, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who has been raised to the peerage and will speak for the Foreign Office in the House of Lords, will take the title of Lord Cushendun. Mr. McNeill, in his first speech sine his promition to Cabinet, said he was conscious of the difficulty of following Viscount Cecil, of whom he was a sincere admirer; but he believed tha* Britons of all parties were quite as convinced as Lord Cecil of the necessity for limitation of armaments by international agreement. "Two years’ experience in the Treasury has convinced me of the stupendous relief to taxpayers, and the stimulus to trade that would be provided if we were able to divert to productive channels the money being necessarily spent in armaments.” he said. ‘‘Britain already has made large reductions: but war would not be impossible even if the world's armaments were reduced to vanishing point as long as skill and the materials for the basis of production of weapons existed. Peace must rest on both a moral and a material basis.”—A. and N.Z.