TO END WAR.
A WORLD PARLIAMENT. (To the Editor.) We are told that no country in the world wants war. I believe that. To bring about world peace and make it a permanent success it is essential that the world be treated as one economic unit. The League of Nations, reorganised so as to exclude delegates who are not in sympathy with the idea of governing this planet in accordance with the principles of justice and equity, should be converted into a world parliament, charged with the duty of organising the peoples to work under a system of mutual help and co-operation to provide in abundance the world's needs in the shortest possible time by using machinery to the utmost extent, the end in view being, not the miserable! sordid one of profits and ever more profits' (no matter who are ruined and slaughtered in the process), but the complete satisfaction' of the reasonable wants of all who are willintr to render service for the good of liumanitv! Room in sparsely populated countries will have to be found for the surplus populations of other countries. If no action is taken along these lines the conflict between the contending interests of the nations must result in the world's destruction, as predicted centuries ago, but it will be by man's own fire F.E. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 8
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221TO END WAR. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 8
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