MAKING A BETTER PEACE.
Askecl to discuss the conditions of a better peace, Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, international jurist and director of the American National Peace Conference, called upon responsible world statesmen to declare that it was their purpose after the present war to establish a genuine world community, not a League of Victors to enslave the vanquished. “TJnless the terms of peace are clearly outlined in advance of widespread hostilities,” he said, “the war will lie followed in all likelihood by another Versailles Treaty. r l his would be a catastrophe even greater than the war itself There must not again be a peace of vindictiveness. Let this fact be proclaimed now before it is too late. The maintenance of the present system of power politics is not worth the life of a single soldier.” Dr. Van Kirk also called upon the United States to take its p'lace in aiding the formation of a better world order, holding that it is bound, economically and morally, to the nations now at war and to all other nations, thus giving America a vital stake in the peace which will follow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 80, 15 January 1940, Page 4
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