AFTER THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 5

AFTER THE WAR.

EUROPE'S PROBLEM.

HUMAN RECLAMATION. MILLIONS ALREADY HOMELESS (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 6. Some Americans have been discussing the great problem of human reclamation that will come after the conclusion of the great conflict. This subject came

np for consideration at the University Clu'b in Los Angeles when Dr. Syud Hoesain, professor at the University of Southern California, and a former London and Bombay editor, as well as peace delegate after the last war, said: "By the simple process of elimination, the United States has become the last sanctuary of democracy in the world. Everywhere else democracy has been ground down between the upper and nether millstones of Fascism and Communism, or succumbed to the complications of imperialism and colonialism. As Napoleon remarked, every empire dies of indigestion.

"The dream of making the world safe for democracy has gone with the wind. Let us hope we can make America safe for democracy."

There is an essential difference between the present war and the last one, said Dr. Hossain. The last was a struggle for power without any challenge to the existing social and economic order of Europe. This one is more of a revolution. Germany has challenged not only the political statue quo of Europe, he said, but the whole system of organisation known as Western civilisation.

"After the last war life in Europe reverted to the normal channels and the traditional grooves," said the speaker. "It is now clear that after this war, and regardless of who wins it, the disruption will have been eo complete that an entirely new Europe will have to arise from the ashes of the old.

"Even if America does not become a participant in the war, she cannot escape the consequences of it. Aside from any political changes, a broken! and bankrupt Europe will inevitably turn to America for succour and salvaging. The number of homeless, hopeless refugees already is running into thej millions. It will foe the most stupendous problem of human reclamation that the world has known."