Sir Norman Angell says:

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 10 May 1935, Page 18

Sir Norman Angell says:

Everybody wants peace, and everybody drifts towards war. Security for one means automatically insecurity for another. You can never:be sure that you have equated the balance of power. Whether our armament: are adequate or inadequate depends entirely on what they are going to meet. Adequacy depends upon who is with you and who against you. Every one of those wars in which Britain ‘has been engaged for 1000 years has. been fought in someone else’s country. We are putting out might not behind right, .as we -may sincerely enough: have ‘supposed, but behind the denial of right. We are genuinely. convinced that. our power gould never be used for: an ‘injustice in the. world. Germans are ‘no more fit'to be the- judges of’ ‘their catse: ‘than we, are. , Hotiseholders were "infinitely less secure many years ago when they had their blunderbusses in. their rooms. There were then more highwaymen than. to-day, when practically no householder has a firearm in the home. We pay our police rates not only to protect ourselves, but to protect

‘that blighter Smith next door, whom we loathe. In international politics we still believe in individual defence. Yet one outstanding lesson of the War was that freedom from commitment did not keep us out. _ If Germany had known that she have 22 nations against her, there would have been no war. We must make up our minds beforehand what will cause us to fight and what will not.. What is the law we should defend in common? The law that no -nation should go to war. You cannot protect your, life and trade merely by protecting your goods. Material is only wealth if you can .get rid of it. The Welsh miner cannot eat his coal. If the dwindling of. trade goes on, there will, be only cruisers on thets routes. If you would preserve peace in our time and for your children, | would urge you to study whether the non-commitment of 1914 or the commitment of the Covenant is. the better way, and then express faith in the national declaration now being organised.