TRUE PEACE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 134, 18 March 1940, Page 5

TRUE PEACE

MR ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH.

WELCOMED IN BRITAIN.

FIRM GRASP OF REALITIES

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) * LONDON, March 17.

Mr Roosevelt’s broadcast on tlie essential basis of the real peace, which tho world so badly needs, is warmly welcomed by tlie British Press. The President’s insistence that no. peace could be lasting, if its fruits were oppression, starvation and cruelty, and if the life of the nations continued to be dominated by armed camps so that small nations went in fear of powerful neighbours, is particularly noted, as showing Mr Roosevelt’s firm grasp on tho realities of'the European situation. British Official Wireless. ~ - POINTS FROM SPEECH. MOD AL BASIS FOR PEACE WASHINGTON, March IG. Mr Roosevelt, in a world-wide broadcast in connection with the Christian' Foreign * Service Convocation, declared that the world was seeking a moral basis for peace. ( He added: “It cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognise brotherhood. It cannot be a lasting peace if .the fruit of it is oppression, starvation, cruelty or human life dominated by armed camps. It fcannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbours. It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for i tribute. It cannot, be an intelligent peace if it denies the free passage of knowledge and of those ideals which permit men lo„find_ com#non ground. It cannot be a righteous peace if the worship of God is denied. “The world, on these fundamentals, did not have true peace in the years between the ending of the* world war and the beginning of tlie present wars. The band of missionaries whom you are meeting to honour understood this, {They permitted no’threat to the integrity or the institutions of the nations in‘which they worked. They sought to promote an international order based on human kindness. - “The active search for peace which the early Christians preached meant iheetirig and overcoming those forces which set themselves against the brotherhood of man, and which denied the equality of souls before the throne of God. In those olden days they faced apparently unconquerable forces, yet were victorious. 1 offer my greetings to you as a congregation of faith in the certainty that you will'lielp to keep alive thdjt spirit of. kindliness and faith which is the- essence of civilisation. ;> “I am confident of your ultimate triumph, for the ideals of justice, kindness,- kro-fhorhood and faith can-, not die. These, the highest human ideals, will be defended- and maintained. In their victory the whole w*orld stands to gain, and the fruit of it is peace”’