TIRED OF WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1921, Page 5

TIRED OF WAR.

THE DESIRE TO DISARM. LORD NORTHCLIFFE’S VIEW. WORLD PEACE POSSIBLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, July 30In a considered interview with the New York Tribune, Lord Northcliffe said: “The British public feels that the forthcoming Washington conference must not fail. The British public will insist that no diplomatic trivialities nor Parliamentary technique shall be permitted to obstruct a new arrangement between the Powers to safeguard the world’s peace now made possible through President Harding’s happy' initiative. Britain desires not only the enduring settlement of pending questions in the Pacific and the Far East, accompanied by an appropriate limitation of armaments, but hopes the conference will bind more closely the mutual trust of the two great English-speaking peoples. The British people are tired of war and want no more of it.”

Lord Northcliffe said ho was'convinced that the American people held a similar view, and wanted to rule out political factions and international bugbeais that drained the national treasuries against a contingency that never appeared. They wanted to tear away the ingenious fabric of diplomatic conventionalities in favor of a frank exchange of views, mutual concessions and agreement. They wanted to get the essential human element in international relations.

Regarding the Irish question. Lord Northcliffe declared that there was every reason to expect it would be got out of the way, and in a fashion to gain the approval of America, before the Washington Conference started, The King had the confidence of the people of both England and Ireland, and England was counting heavily on the good offices of the King in Irish matters.

With referenee to Japan. Lord Northcliffe said there was nothing in Britain’s friendly feeling towards Japan which would imped? the settlement of the Pacific and Far Eastern questions to the entire satisfaction of America.