To the Editor of the "Nontu-CHiva DAILY News"
Sia,—The Locarno Pact was sion: ed last week amid expressions of amity and good will on the part of the representatives of the signatory Powers. At the Guildhall banquet: Bir. (now Sir) Austen Chamberlain and the German Amb: together from the our Foreign Secretary, in his subsequent speech, expressed the hope that what they had done that, evening their two nations would do to-morrow, and went on to say that, in the matter of the Pact, he was acting as the spokesman, not of a party, but of the whole nation, and that the Pact responded to the conscious neod of the whole world. The "Times" in commenting on the tated: "The evidence that the tional. agreement come the daily obsessions of statesmen and people as to find embodiment in a solemn international contract & in itself a most inapiciting fact which has already: begun to modify the mind of Europe, and to change the whole perspective of events." In spite of what the "Times" says, are we to take it that all these utterances merely express the views of those who make them, or do they really Tepresent the hopes @f the people of the various nations? I venture to suggest that they give expression to the heart-felt wish of the ordinary man in the street, and there fs, therefore, an obligation on each individual of us to do our best ty bring to fruition the thapes and desires visualized in the speeches of our statesmen and others, Now, Sir, my object in writing to you is to ask what are we, individual Britonh here, doing to bring bring about better relations between the peoples who were at war a few years ago? More than seven years have elapsed since the signing of that Treaty drawn up by idealists, which was to make the world safe for demo-racy. That Treaty was supposed to. bring peace to the world. Instead of peace we have had nothing but wars and disturbances, and the world is now weary of the present conditions, and for some time ast has been groping about in the dark to find the real road to peace.
Can we find that road to peace '20 long as we continue to refuse to meet our former enemies on the common.grounds of seal intercotirse and friendship? How can peach and friendship' nations if the peoples of these nations distidst' each other, and continue to regard each other'ng enemies? I venture, therefore, t0 appeal tomy +féllow Britons," individually; to do what he can to remove the presentattitade; of -dise trast and enmity which appears to exist between some of us and our Shanghai, Dee. 10, 1925,
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