A WILL FOR PEACE
CREATING UNIVERSAL DESIRE ' By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright \ GENEVA, Thursday. At yesterday’s meeting of the Pre-: ■paratory Committee on Disarmament. | Mr. Hugh Gibson (United States) said j he believed the idea behind the proposed Pact renouncing war could he made effective as an articulate expression of the almost universal will for peace. He believed such an expression would he more effective at present than any scheme to suppress armaments. The Government of the United States believed the most vital need at the moment was the creation of a universal desire for peace and confidence in the pacific settlement of disputes. If that were established armaments would naturally 'decrease. Public opinion at present did not demand the complete abolition of armaments. If it did so, no Government could resist it. Altogether the representatives of ten nations, including Sweden, Poland and Belgium, supported Lord Cushendun’s views.—A. and N.Z.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280323.2.106
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 311, 23 March 1928, Page 9
Word Count
150A WILL FOR PEACE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 311, 23 March 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in