THE HAGUE CONFERENCE
CAMPBELL-BAXNIiHMANtS DISARMAMENT DREAMS.
BROKEN BY A FRENCH NEWSPAPER. Received 4, 11.14 p.m. Paris, March 4. The Paris newpaper "Le Temps," in an article, asks what right had Sir 11. Campbell-Baiinerman to affirm it was possible in 1899, or now, to arrange limitation of armaments. Since ISA!) we seen the Transvaal and Japanese wars, and the Moroccan crisis. Compare the ideal with stern reality, and you will measure* the impudent confidence by which the responsible head of the British Government was carried away. It is wiser, says "Le Temps," to recognise that the Hague Conference should be the work of jurists, able to codify the laws of war. It is not to establish universal peace. 'I n expect it to be, is 'to create illusions doomed to grievous disappointment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 5 March 1907, Page 3
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131THE HAGUE CONFERENCE Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 5 March 1907, Page 3
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