FIGHTING FOR WHAT?

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 8

FIGHTING FOR WHAT?

TO THB SUITOR OF TBR PRESS. » Sir. —Your editorial in “The Press” o| Monday under the above heading draws attention to a subject which I should. like to see discussed in your correspondence columns from a purely constructive angle. As you suggest, a definite statement of policy by the Allied Powers for ensuring international order would be a great help at the present time, not only to their own subjects, but also to peoples throughout the world who know the futility of war. As regards those questions you ask about the League of/Nations, it seems to me that it was rather a case of the nations failing the League, than the League itself failing. Its whole conception was too idealistic for the present state of Man’s development. I believe the only way war could be abolished is by the formation of a world government, with courts of justice and necessary forces to maintain law and order throughout the world. If we look at the early history of Britain, we see there was almost constant war between the petty kingdoms, and it was not until the whole country came under one government that pence was attained within that country. As you point out, the present conditions are more difficult than in 1914, owing to the conflicting! ideologies which hope to become world-wide. Could the Allied objective bo the establishment of a democratic world government?— Yours, etc., ! * W. J. CLOSE. September 28, 1939.