THE NEW STRUGGLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 9

THE NEW STRUGGLE

WORLD ORGANISATION

"The event that we have all longed for prayed for, worked for, and fought for—the end of the war in Europehas already passed into history and a new struggle has begun," says the annual report of the council of the League of Nations Union m New Zealand, Wellington branch. "The first phase of that struggle, now. in progress at San Francisco, is going well, so Mr. Anthony Eden tells us in a reassuring statement issued at Washington on his way back to London. There have been difficulties and differences and overshadowing issues, but they are being resolved. Old attitudes and old prejudices have to be and are being broken down. ■ "Consider Americas position alone. David Mitrany, professor in the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ tells us in his pamphlet, The Road to Security.' a stimulating commentary on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals' ''The American Government and Congress have to face a. deep and old core of traditional isolationism and an innate reluctance to embark . upon changes of policy which must inevitably bring with them a change m the constitutional balance between Presi : dent and Congress. ... We should not be impatient if the discussion takes a turn we do not altogether like.' Such reflections emphasise the need for sympathetic understanding of other countries' problems. They are a warning, too that the new world organisation cannot succeed unless it has behind it a strong, tolerant, vigorous, and enlightened public opinion. To help to create this is the privilege and the urgent task of every branch of the union in New Zealand, and particularly the Wellington branch, with its strategic situation in the capital city. The opportunity and the responsibility are great." . .