There was a danger, the Prime Minister continued, that, unless something more were done to instruct opinion in civilized countries, the League of Nations might become a breeding ground for intrigues and feuds. Parties and groups might be formed and one day, when the majority was for one way and force for another; it might be found that the discussions of the League only led to the greatest conflict yet witnessed. He said he had been filled with disappointment when he saw that, despite the lesson taught by the war, the spirit of national hatred and national greed and the worst form of national pride were as dominant as ever, not only in countries that were great before the war, but even worse in liberated nations, amongst whom he saw no sign of anxiety for the intervention of the League of Nations in their disputes nor any respect for its decisions.
The conscience of the people, Mr. Lloyd George declared, must be trained so that it would abhor bloodshed as a crime. The Churches must create that atmosphere. The same applied to industrial warfare. Surely, the Prime Minister concluded, there must be a less bar-barons way of settling disputes than by a war of starvation. The Churches could inculcate a spirit of goodwill between the classes and greater readiness to consider each other's point of view. (Cheers).—Reuter.
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