PLEA FOR FRIENDSHIP.
FIRST LORD’S SPEECH. FEAR-HAUNTED WORLD. A plea for an understanding with Italy was made by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Duff Cooper, in a speech tit Pencaitland, Scotland. He had great hopes, he said, that Italy might be induced to sign the London Naval Treaty of 1936 (which limits the eizes of ships and guns, but not of navies) The First .Lord said he held the hope, although it was only a year since Britain had been applying sanctions against Italy. The time bad come to let bygones be bygones, and seek to restore the happy relations that had so long existed between Britain and Italy. The same fear haunted the world as before 1914, said Mr Duff Cooper, in surveying tne outlook generally. In spite of prosperity at home and Imperial solidarity, there loomed up a dark cloud full of horrible possibilities. If the Government followed the ativice' of the Opposition, the British people would find themselves not fighting the insurgents of General franco, hut one of the Great Powers of Europe.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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178PLEA FOR FRIENDSHIP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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