NON-AGGRESSION PACT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 8 June 1937, Page 5

NON-AGGRESSION PACT

AUSTRALIA FACES NEW CIRCUMSTANCES it* ■ ■ DESIRE FOR UNIVERSAL' PEACE Principles Of Washington Treaties Prbss Association —Copyright. (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, June 7. Replying to the toast of his health at the Foreign Press Association’s luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, at which the Press of almost the whole world were represented, Mr Lyons said Australia, was directly concerned in the Pacific, and the proposed pact of non.aggression.

Australia desired to live at peace with her neighbours. Unfortunately the equilibrium established by the Washington Treaties had been somewhat dissipated. Australia faced a new set of circumstances, and wanted to renew the principles underlying those Treaties;

He believed that other nations were equally anxious for peace, so the proposed pact did not ask any special commitments, except that all should denounce war as a means of settling differences, a n d to agree to meet around the table to discuss problems, and accept the principle of non-aggression. Personally he believed it possible of achievement.