ARMAMENT PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1921, Page 5

ARMAMENT PROBLEM.

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. WILL LLOYD GEORGE GO? , SOME STRIKING SPEECHES. Bj Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Nov. I, 10.40 pan. London, Oct. 31. Speaking at a dinner in honor of the British delegates to the Washington -inference, Mr. Harvey (American Ambassador) described how Mr. LloycJ George accepted the invitation to the conference and declared his determination to io his utmost to make it a great success. The pledge had been kept to that evening, when unfortunately Mr. Lloyd ’eorge had become apprehensive that’ a more urgent duty might prevent him extending his helpfulness and the prestige of his presence at the conference's | opening. Received Nov. 1, 10.40 p.m. Washington, Oct. bl. ■Senator Swanson, ranking as a Democratic member of the Senate committee on naval affairs, in a speech, said Government expenditure, unless greatly reduced. would certainly lead to further industrial distress, which would finally culminate in universal bankruptcy. Mad international competition in armaments can only be ended by the success or the Washington Conference. He said the United States Government taxes its people 10 per cent, of their total income, which is more than three times the 1910 tax, and the people will cease to labor when thus forcibly deprived of the fruits of their toil. The United States should recognise the dependence of England on access to the >ea, alike in times of peace and war, for the sustenance of her people and the continuation of industries. bnt we should insist that this gives no right of naval supremacy, or places the commerce of the world under her control or dictation. In Kansas City, Lord Beatty, In a speech, declared ’ that other nations fought in self-defence with the certainty of dissolution if they failed, but the United States had little to fear whatever the outcome might be. Thus her entry into the Great War was the result of a completely unselfish determination to see justice done and show she would not tolerate aggression against free peoples. He added: “Those who made the victorious peace possible shall stand side by side, and they shall steadfastly repress all petty jealousies, and move forward together along the path of civilisation and prosperity. We axe compelled to combat in this frailty of human nature the explosiveness of human passions. The American legion and the British legion are well equipped to press home the truth, and that spirit of comradeship must be left alive.” / t A QUESTIOX OF RANK. Received Nov. 1, 8.10 p.m. Washington, Nov. 1. The State Department announces that the four American delegates to the Disarmament Conference will be given ambassadorial rank, placing them on an equal footing with foreign delegates. PROPAGANDISTS ARRIVING. New York. Oet. 31. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that the advance guard of the propagandists representing the nations which emerged from the Paris Conference dissatisfied with the terms of the Versailles Treaty is beginning to arrive. It is expected Washington will be flooded with fully as many agents of these movements as those coming with the earnest purpose of solving the problem of armaments. The hotels will be full of individual* without official standing attempting to inject their views into the armament conference. and, failing this, to air them in * the Press. Sailendranath Ghose, spokesman ot the Gandhi movement in India, has arrived. and has issued a statement regarding the movement to establish a Republic in India.