ISSUE OF COMBAT.
DEMOCRACY'S SAFETY. HISTORY LECTURER'S VIEWS. The real issue of the present war seemed to him to be an effort to ensure that a world was achieved in which there should not be two great wars in a single generation, nor the continual passing from one crisis to another, declared Mr. W. T. G. Airey, senior lecturer in history at the Auckland University College, in a luncheon address to members of the Auckland Creditmen's Club this afternoon.
Real victory demanded more than mere military" strength, Mr. Airey said. It demanded a strengthening of those things which were essential to peace.
"Wo must be clear on the past and think hard on the future if we do not want again to find that we have missed a world that is safe for democracy, without war. and fit for heroes to live in," he added. "We must not only consider what kind of agreements are necessary to tliat end—hut more still we must consider whether we have secured social, economic and psychological conditions that will let such agreements function."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 11
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179ISSUE OF COMBAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 11
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