INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23809, 1 December 1942, Page 6

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Sir,—The recent "verbal exchange," between Mr Wendell Willkie and Mr Churchill reveals, in my opinion, a lamentable lack of the spirit of justice and of common sense which must necessarily actuate those who are privileged to shape a better world order. On the one hand Mr Churchill, voicing the sturdy Britisher’s viewpoint, declares, “We mean to hold our own.” The America of Wall Street on the other hand, through Mr Winant and Mr Willkie, believes that the British colonial possessions should be made wards of the “United Nations.” That is. they should be internationalised with control (in reality) vested in the United States. What else can we believe? In the past international trade has largely been channelled through the “most favoured nations” policy, causing no end of jealousy and bitterness. Would it not be better for the world and a surer augury of goodwill among men if a "nearest neighbour’s” policy was universally agreed upon. After all, is not this the policy that already governs the relations between the individual and his fellows?— Yours, etc., ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY. November 24, 1942.