1 Mr, Lloyd George addressed in the United Free Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, a united demonstration of the Scottish Churches on j the subject of "The Churches and Internationa] Peace." Mr, Lloyd Georga, who had a very cordial reception, commenced by drawing a picture of the leading Powers of Europe in ruins, new States risen from the dead, and devastation existing. As the result of the war there had been these changes, but there was one thing which had not changed at all. Who would say, with all this desolation, that the world had learnt a lesson? The suspicion amongst nations was just as strong as ever, only more intense; hatreds between races and peoples only fiercer. Great armies were arming, drilling, and scheming for war. Conventions and compacts were being made for joint action when the tocsin sounded.
arrange where they should march, General staffs were meeting to low they should march, where they should strike. Little nations only just hatched out of the shell were staggering under the burden of great armies marching to unknown battle fields. New machinery of destruction and slaughter was being devised and manufactured every day. When he saw what was going on in Europe he was filled with genuine alarm. He found in Europe exactly the same elements working that produced the last great catastrophe. the Gaul and Teuton interlocked and other nations drifting towards the bog. It was like a seething cauldron, and he did not know what was to come of it. In the face of this anxious situation, with pos: sibilities full of greater disaster to civilization than anything that had ever befallen, what was to be done? No new conception of international] right. no new decree of international right, no new organization for interpreting international right was of the slightest use unless you had a trained, disciplined. educated public opinion sustaining it. (Cheers.) The decrees of the
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