as an Instrument for Securing Peace London, Nov. 5.
Mr, Baldwin in a speech at Aberdeen to-day referred to the value of, the Locarno®. Treaty in securing peace in Europe.
The efficacy of the League of Nations, Mr. Baldwin said, was ex-amplified by the settlement of the Graggo-Bulgarian dispute.
Affuding to Syria the Prime Minister said that he observed in some quarters a demand that he should pass summary judgment on the conduct of the Allies in regard to their mandated territories, Our growing sensibility wrong to wherever committed is a good thing, he said, but censure should be tempered with remembrance of our own shortcomings and a full sense of the difficulty of the task imposed qn the great Powers, by the mandatory system.
Referring to the Government's determination to make every econ amy, however, unpopular, he said that' Britain could not economise to a point which would reduce our defensive forces below what we believe to be necessary for the safety of the Empire-—Reuter.
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