INTERNATIONAL: One Way to Avoid War

"One Way to Avoid War"

After taking in hot haste the most extraordinary step which any of British George V's Governments have taken since the War, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet suffered last week slight pricks of conscience.

What they had done was to peril the sanctity of multilateral treaties by signing with Germany an exchange of notes professing to acknowledge Realmleader Hitler's "right" to violate the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles in return for his promise "forever" binding Germany not to build a navy more than 35% as potent...

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