"I want this government to be a go-getter for peace," declared Mr. Chamberlain. "That does not mean to undertake the role of world policeman, but, if we see peste threatened, to use all our influence to save it, and, if war starts, to take any opportunity to stop it."
The speaker added that the business of piling up armaments is the height ey human folly.
"For the time being I regard it as inevitable, but only as a temporary accompaniment to the other part of a policy to which I am turning all my energies without qualification or misgiving, namely, the policy of understanding and goodwill."
"Such aims require untiring patience in the face of misunderstanding, criticism. and disappointment," he said.—Reuter.
After pleading for more light on how the Government was going to attain peace, Mr. Lloyd George complained that there had always been complete surrender to dictators in their most extreme demands.
In China, he said, it had surrendered far more than Japan had ever demanded.
The Welsh statesman referred ironically to the sending of a few packages to China when she was fighting for her life against "a terrible aggressor and invader, who is going to march up to the boundaries of our and France's eastern empire."
The news last night, he continued, was that Japan's armies had announced their intention to march right to the boundaries of Burma.
"For the first time they are right on our frontier, a great, aggressive military empire commanding millions of soldiers. It is a very grave event for the British Empire. We have troubles in India, troubles which revealed discontent with the concessions made, and there are' demands for greater concessions and for independency.
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