MAN’S COMMONSENSE.
In the course of a speech at Glasgow Mr McKinnon Wood, M.P., Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, said that when they heard of wars and rumors of war they were nclined to ho a little pessimistic. When they recognised the fact that even nations which were only anxious to proceed upon the path of peaceful, social development, were compelled to employ their resources for national defence, and that statesmen had to think of the dangers unforseen which might suddenly come upon them, they could not help feeling that after all the centuries mankind had not greatly advanced in the matter of war, still there was room for hope if they looked in other directions. They heard people talk about the unchanging East. But there, in China, the had the national conscience aroused against the great national curse—opium—and they had put down the consumption of opium in province after province. . They appealed to Britain for help, and he was glad to say ' we gave it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3385, 28 November 1911, Page 8
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165MAN’S COMMONSENSE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3385, 28 November 1911, Page 8
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