ROUND TABLE CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 12

ROUND TABLE CLUB.

Speaking on "The Use of Force" at the Auckland Business and Professional Women's Round Table Club, Miss Lilian Edger, M.A., said that in primitive times force was the one determining factor and was the means by which individuality was formed and progress made. It was through strife and conflict that this individuality became strorlg.

In those early days people had to form their own opinions, think independently and plan their own lives and live them as fully and completely as they could. From these individual families, tribes and clans and nations gradually evolved. The speaker traced the rule of force from the times of duelling, through the reign of law as instanced by the law courts, to the co-operation of the present day, which had culminated in the League of Nations, and showed how although we had progressed from the rule of force, through the rule of law to co-operation (which was really the rule of spirit), the ultimate resort was still force. Miss lidger explained at some length the main articles of the League Covenant and expressed her confidence that the friendliness between the nations engendered by the League would eventually smooth out all international difficulties and further the spirit of understanding and good will which was even now so apparent.