Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-12

graphic report OF the speech OF Prime
Minister j. Ramsay Macdonald last night
before the Council Of Foreign Rela.
lions at dinner at the Ritz-Carltor
Hotel follows:
at vas a very kindly thought Of
those responsible for the arrangement
Of these dinners to invite me to come
and break bread with you at your table
you were certainly not unknown tc
me, because for some time now have
read a magazine for which you are
responsible. both with pleasure and
with profit I refer to Foreign Affairs
And when heard that the chairman
ment. Mr. Root, was to take the chair
the honor that you had done me by
sending me your invitation was indeed
crowned with a glorious pleasure.
! "Only for the first time have I met
Mr.. Root in the flesh 1t is a very
very long time ago since learned to
respect him as one of the conspicuous
workers in the cause of international
peace.
And tonight when I met him again
sitting so bravely under his heavy load
| of years, what comes to my mind is
Simeon waiting on the steps of the
temple for the Mosaic appearance.
My hope and my prayer, sir, is that
you may feel In these days, when the
cause of peace has been so subStan-
TALLY advanced, some Of those feelings
that must have animated Simeon on
J that great occasion. Tonight I am
speaking to you. and I see you, but
outside from one end of America to
the other-and also, am told, across
the Atlantic ITSELF am addressing an
unseen audience who hear voice but
! see no man.
No Ground for Susuiciop,
ct have a feeling, sir, that that au-
| dience has already been addressed from
| the columns of innumerable newspapers
that have recorded the heartentng
| transactions of the last week. They
have followed the course of the nego-
| tiations day by day, and every time
that your President and myself have
been able to renew the hope, to give
them greater satisfaction as people
watching for peace, they have cheered
and cheered, and they have upheld us
in our efforts.
There has been an odd voice or
two, as you said, sir, who is out of har-
mony with the general feelings of the
world. I find there is still that old
leaven of diplomacy left in some quar-
tiers, mostly remote beyond the seas,
that If two statesmen get together,
talking together. arranging things to-
gether, come to agreements together,
that there must be something sinister
in their hearts. The only remark that
I make to those people is this: That
they are very much out Of date.
Their suspicious do not arise be-
cause they know, they arise because
they are old-fashioned. They arise be-
new spirit that is making up its mind
to govern and dominate the world.
The spirit of an open diplomacy, the
spirit of men coming together, not for
the purpose of dividing the world into
alliances and groups, but for the pur-
pose of their own agreements. helping
the world to come to a general agree
ment that will be universal and not me-
TEDIOUS. That was the spirit that made
Mr.. Hoover and myself meet together
and talk over affairs of mutual interest
to our country.
II want to say quite definitely and
clearly, want the whole world to
know it, and say 1t without any re-
serve and any withholding of any kind
whatever, that during the entire course
of our conversations there has never
been any idea whatever of an exclusive
understanding between Great Britain
and the United States. There has been
nothing discussed which the two gov
cussed on the same basis with all the
powers in the world. The understanding
we have been strying to establish will
always be incomplete and unsatisfactory
until 1t has become the common pos
session of all the nations on the face
of the earth.
Dealings in Open.
'That fact, Mr.. Chairman, was very
well illustrated by the circumstances
under which these conversations were
inaugurated. When you sent Gen.
Dawes to London to represent you, he
hurried up in the full light of day to
meet me in my highland fastnesS. We
met. We sat at a table together, cheek
by jowl, as we say in Scotland, and
an open window was at our shoulder.
The sun shone in upon us. Crowds CT
reporters were in the yards photograph
ing us through the glass, beholding our
various transactions, noting our smiles;
and, no doubt, noting our per-
pleXities; everything conducted in the
glass house, with no secrecy. no cur
! tains, no blinds: and from that day to
this our negotiations have been con-
Quoted by men who wish to hive the
open life and have no desire to pursue
the secret one.
I'VE have not come together for the
purpose of enthroning peace over the
Atlantic. We have come together for
the purpose of trying to enthrone peace
| all over the world.
I'm your reference to the working
men of Lancashire, sir, you remind us
| that in those days of great trial in the
United States those workingmen, bent
down under poverty, their lives dark
erty, felt the ideal of justice SO keenly,
| that they were prepared to go into a
| still deeper darkness in order that they
| might have no art or part in favor OF
struggle which they regarded as one
for human liberty and human righteous
ness in the world.
Il have met the same thing since
these negotiations began. When the
| government of which / am the head
decided to postpone the building of two
| cruisers, because we declined to enter
into a shipbuilding program of COM
petition with other nations, 1t meant
unfortunately that the work was open
| for some men and was closed to them.
II don't know how many of you
understand what that means. I don't
| know how many of you understand
a week or of two pounds ten a week
means-not the difference between
| pocket money that may be lavishly
spent, but between an income that en-
| ables family to be kept without the
| fear of mourning debt and who have
nothing at all except what insurance
they get from unemployment funds. But
those men faced that and while they
appealed to us to find them fresh work
they passed resolutions begging us and
praying us to go on with our work OF
disarmament.
Moral Disarmament Urged.
1.-THE chairman was perfectly right
when he said that what we had ir
mind was to effect moral disarma.
ment first of all. We shall never bt
able to effect physical disarmament
until we have succeeded in effectin(