SETTLED EUROPE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1943, Page 5

SETTLED EUROPE

TASKS FOR BRITAIN Lead In The Suppression Of Aggressors Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, April 16. "Never again shall we turn our backs on Europe," stated the Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne, replying to a debate in the House. "We must, as Mr. Churchill has said, create a more effective League of Nations. Our object must be to obtain respect for the decisions of the new international authority, not by compulsion, but by consent." He added that Britain must face the question of sovereignty. It was essential that the new organisation should be more powerful than any potential aggressor, and that it should contain all the nations inspired by the principles for which it stood. Italy, Germany and Japan should not be members of the new international organisation until they had shown by deeds, not merely by words, that they were animated by i the principles of freedom and justice. I

The backing of an overwhelming armed force was another requisite for a successful international peace organisation, he continued. The lesson of the past 20 years was that it was no use embarking on economic sanctions, unless one was prepared to proceed to military action.

Lord Cranborne said he could not go further than Mr. Churchill's recent suggestion for international machinery. These and other matters connected with it were at present under examination by the Allied Governments. He insisted that there must be the closest collaboration and mutual understanding between the British Commonwealth, the United States, Russia and China, for without that there would be chaos in the world. He added, "To the object of establishing that enduring friendship, the efforts of the Government will be unremittingly devoted so that we may hand down to our children the heritage of peace and prosperity which many of ourselves will never know."