Colonel Stimson said he had been profoundly itupressed and moved by the speeches of H. M. the King and Mr. Macdonald, He was convinced that all those who were attending the Conference shared the lofty idealism expressed in both speeches, and he looked forward in the confident hope to the success of their labours.
Te was an auspicious event, he said, that the conference " was Jopened in the Houses of Parliament. which for Americans had a deep significance as the cradle of their Jurisprudence and their fundamental ideas of human liberty.
Colonel Stimson declared that he did not regard the present effort towards disarmanient as final and sincerely hoped that increased feeling of security would enable them to make more drastic reduction jin the future and provide a tangible contribution to the wider problem. of general disarmament which was America's ultimate aim.
He was ready, he said, to stay here "until we can give the world agreement that will carry us happily to the time we meet again in the same spirit to review the situation one Tardieu, the Premier of! France, said the Conference was going "to attempt, with a gravel sense of responsibility, the decisive experiment of organizing peace in the limited fel of limitation and! reduction of a solution, ho said, could not found in mathematical formal, because the stress of life battered all" formals. Hence, said 'Tardieu, he had listened with great pleasure to Mr, MacDonald's' of. ternation that the first duty would to fix the needs of cash, He! emphasized that the League Coven. ant and the Kellogg Pact transformed absolute needs into needs which were only relatively import fant. "Each. nation, "however, different in its standpoint, was already {inva position to consider its. needs relation to the growing series of guarantees.
'This was called the organization of peace. 'Their task mow was win' the most Beautifl of all. vie+ tories over the past, namely the establishment of goodwill among the peoples.
"If we have faith," declared 'Tardieu "we ahall' achieve. thir
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