29 OCTOBER 1927, Page 2

We have written elsewhere about Lord Cecil's address on disarmament

to the League of Nations Union, but must mention here Mr. Lloyd George's speech on the same subject in the Queen's Hall on Monday. The burden of Mr. Lloyd George's vivid remarks was that another war is inevitable " unless the nations will to live at peace." He said that the failure of the Naval Conference at Geneva had had a chilling effect on the whole movement towards disarmament. He believed that if the British Government had then said that war with the United States was such an infinitely remote possibility that Great Britain would agree to " any proposal whatever which reduced armaments " there would have been success instead of failure.