The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-14
LkNSDOWNE AND
 GREY DISCOURSE ~''
 ON APARTMENTS
Washington Conference No Rival for League of Nations," Is Grey's Belief League Necessity for European Nations.

1 Londons Nov. 14.-'I do not look upon the Washington Conference as | a. rival to the League of Nations. but as something which is going to cover | 0 portion of the ground which at the moment the League of Nations could not cover.
 "If that conference results in the settlement of the Pacific question it ton toward world peace and the dim 1 mutton of arInaments.''
 The above statement summarizes l the opinion of Earl Grey of Falloden, who, as Sir Edward Grey, was For l eign Secretary in the Asquith Cabinet at the outbreak of the. great war and was the responsible British Minister | during the preliminary negotiations with Germany, Austria, France and Russia.
 Lord Gre, however. still pins his faiSh to the League of Nations as be- ing the only permanent machinery which can deal with any European controversy.
 Status of League. '"The Washington Conference" he declares: .,is not going to take the place of the League of Nations, be- cause it is not. as far as can see, go- ing to provide any permanent ma chinery to deal with European Ques- tions.
 she only really effective insurance that we can make against war. Fix penditure on .armaments is perhaps an insurance against defeat, but it Is no insurance against war.
 'TThe last war showed the value of insurance against defeat. but it is not going to keep nations out of difficult ties in the future.
 "In future there will be no such i thing as one side losing and the other side winning. Both sides will lose, and nothing will divert the conse- quences. The idea that we can make he dnfn %eI csf +Ion of a,. is impossibly nowadays
 ''The lesson of previous wars was that you must learn or suffer. but the lesson of the 1914 war is that you must learn or perish.
 Human nature must rise to a larger patriotism, This generation and future generations, having the experience of the last war, must be HiSh a firIner grasp of the real and highest interests of nations and hu-
 man nature than our forefathers had the qpportunity of having
 Lansdowne Talks.
 f'The United States has given us an openihg-the creation of wholesomer international atmosphere, the futiIity of vast armarIents will become. ob- Vious, and those who have to bear the burden of expense will not allow their industries to become paralysed and their domestic comforts destroyed in order to promose costly rivalries
 
 This is the opinion of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Foreign Secretary of Great Brisafn in the Salisbury, Rose bery, and, later, the Balfour Cabinets. tsNo one suggests,'' Lord Iansdowne goes on to say, that this country or any other self-respecting power shoud suddenly strip itself of its arms. Nations have long memories and will take no risks.
 ''Nor will they allow their naval and military resources to be rationed by an outside authority.
 There will be a growing impa- dence ofhuge armaraents, and atro- phy will overtalse the 1-ssens of the which has been directed against the | scheme seems to be due to the idea that our adhesion to any interna- l tional combination Of the kind sug- gested would involve a weakening of our national spirit. and e. decline in the splendid patriotism which has stood us in such god stead in the past. I am, however, sanguine enough to i believe that there is room both for a | patriotism based upon pride of race and the giSrious achievements of the past, and also for the feeling that the whole world, with its boundless pos abilities, Is the common iaheritance l of all the nations of the earth, that there Is no part of it in which we have net all of us a concern, and that l 1t is common humanity, not peculiar 1 to any one country which it outraged | when we see any part of dhe world wantoniy ravaged and disfigured, l cannot help believeing that this largSf l patriotism is destined to play | greater part in the history of man