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Show wEdaSsh submarine boat LADY ASTOR" TAKES A STAND AGAINST UNDERSEA CRAFT IN LONDON INTERVIEW Woman Lawmaker Is Ready To Go Before Women Of World With Message To Do Away With Submarines London. Lady Astor, Virginia beauty, member of the British parliament parlia-ment and orginator of the latest British Brit-ish movement for banning the submarine, sub-marine, advocated in an exclusive United Press interview an agreement among nations to "halt this horrible thing." France, she said, ought to take the initiative. Yet there was a great deal to be said for those "who think England Eng-land should take the lead" in outlawing out-lawing the undersea boat as a war weapon. She foresaw that America would back England in such a cause. Only recently at Plymouth, Lady Astor declared she was ready to go among tle women of the entire world to rouse them against the undersea weapon. This word from her has started statesmen of England and America thinking and talking of submarine sub-marine scrapping which failed at the Washington arms conference on objections ob-jections from France. Asked to give her views in greater detail the charming Southerner, the first woman to have a seat in the British imperial ' parliament, said: "I feel very strongly that we should do something to halt this horrible thing. "My own experience among the wives bf officers and men is that the submarine service should be abolished abolish-ed by' agreements. How this is to be done I do not know. I think Great Britain did all it could at the Washington Wash-ington conference, but was stopped by France. "It is now for France to make the trial." France, Lady Astor suggested, has become calmer since the days of the Washington conference; for in the meantime the Locarno peace pacts have arisen to give her an air of security se-curity which France then felt was lacking. "On the other hand," continued Lady Astor, "there is a good deal to be said for those who think that England Eng-land should take the lead and call a fresh conference, whether it is held or not. Even if refusals come, we should at least know where we stand. "I feel sure that the United States would back us up." Such a conference, she said, ought ' to include Russia; for, without that nation, any agreement reached would be not complete. "I believe," she said, "that, if the conference is actually called, Russia would join." |
