British Premier Ready to Take the Risk of Peace: Plea for Patience and Goodwill from America: Effect of Limiting Armaments New York, Oct. 11.
Mr, Ramsay MacDonald addressed the largest. audience of his career to-day when he was the guest at the banquet given at the Ritz Carton hotel by the Council of Foreign Relations, The speech was broadcast throughout the United States and also to England, The British Premier pleaded eloquently for patience and goodwill on the part of the American people while Britons changed their minds on the question of sea armaments, culled attention to the fact that Britain and her Dominions had signed the Optional Clause at Geneva, pledging themselves. to submit to the judgment of the Hague Court. He exclaimed "We have nothing to fear. If we are we win our case. If we are wrong, we do not deserve to wi His concluding words were are both justified in our belief that we ean see the shining foet of pence-makers coming over the horizon."—Reuter, A Personal Triumph He pointed out that Britain's Navy was Britain herself and that the sea was Britain's security. "So you will understand," he continued, "now hard it is to get people to feel security if the Naval arm is imited in any way."
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