Lord Rosebery Fears Increase in World's Armament

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1915

Lord Rosebery Fears Increase in World's Armament

THE comment of Lord Rosebery when he heard of the plans of the United States to increase its navy is of special interest to students of Biblical prophecy who are expecting to see all the world arm for the final battle of Armageddon.

Lord Rosebery was presiding at the Rhodes lecture at London University the evening of November 16, when he said, as reported in the New York Times of Nov. 17, 1915:—

I know nothing more disheartening than the announcement recently made, that the United States—the one great country left in the world free from the hideous, bloody burden of war—is about to embark upon the building of a huge armada destined to be equal or second to our own.

It means that the burden will continue upon the other nations and be increased exactly in proportion to the fleet of the United States. I confess that it is a disheartening prospect that the United States, so remote from the European conflict, should voluntarily in these days take up the burden, which, after this war, will be found to have broken, or almost broken, our backs.