5 APRIL 1930, Page 34

American Speeches, by the Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald (Cape,

3s. 6d.), is a worthy record of a very worthy achievement. As speeches, or as literature, they are not brilliant, but they do represent admirably what General Dawes in his Foreword calls the constructive common attitude of public sentiment (in Great Britain and America) upon naval disarmament. Let each of us echo the Prime Minister's words " I am out for a positive policy of peace.'1 Those who still think of peace in - terms of war are, as he says, " old fashioned ; their suspicions arise because they have no conception of the new spirit that is making up its mind to dominate the world . . . "

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