POST-WAR TASKS OF ALLIES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23882, 26 February 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR TASKS OF ALLIES

AGGRESSOR NATIONS TO BE DISARMED

“A WORLD POLITICAL ASSOCIATION ” (8.0. W. RUGBY, Feb. 24. “The immediate post-war task will be to disarm the aggressor nations and to put it beyond possibility that they can trouble the peace of the world again or until enough time has elapsed for a genuine, deep change of heart and mind among their misguided and deluded peoples,” said the Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison) at the Guildhall, when defining the British Government’s views on post-war international organisation. It was natural and right, he said, to look forward to the period in which the victorious Allies would be the guardians of the world’s peace. Special responsibility would rest upon the great Powers, particularly Russia, the United States, China, and Great Britain’. The sword of world justice and world sovereignty would.be in the hands of those four nations and they must see that in the course of time they mobilised behind the effective power they would wield the free consent of all the free peoples of the world, including the politically reconstructed nations which had been victims of the Axis.

This pointed towards the creation in due time of a genuinely representative world political association. This association would have to provide means by which the peoples of the world would find solutions to world problems. Such solutions must no longer be sought by the perilous bargainings of separate armed nations, but by reasoned and moderate joint approaches to questions of difficulty and problems of change—approaches in which there was a general readiness to sacrifice the old idea of unrestricted national sovereignty in the interests of common action.

If that was a Utopian ideal, then the hope of world peace was an illusion. His Majesty’s Government was committed to this objective. A world association, fully representative, as the League of Nations was not; was the aim, together with a unified resolve to work out and implement a positive policy possessing sufficient force to achieve its agreed purposes and to restrain those who would impede them. ; Mr Morrison added that this did not mean the maintenance of heavy armaments, but readiness to jump by military action on a potential aggressor. Britain’s Fart After dealing with the major political and financial aspects of the future world, controlled by peace-loving nations in association, Mr Morrison said that of the great Powers Britain would inevitably play a leading part in hammering out the solutions to these problems. She was the oldest and politically the most experienced. She had had longer experience of selfgovernment than any other country, and she had had a wider experience of world government in all areas, among all peoples at all levels of development. The ties of geography made Britain a part of Europe, and a common culture and a common language bound Britain to the United States. Membership of a world commonwealth made Britons far more than Europeans, and Britain was a link between Europe and the rest of the world. In some respects she was the interpreter for, through her sister commonwealths, she could explain the New World to the Old, and the Old World to the New. In particular, Britain might be able to play a part in developing and cementing relations of friendship between the Russians and the Americans. With Russia, Britain shared a first-hand concern with the crucial problem of the reconstruction of Europe. Lastly, Britain, because of her world-wide interests and development, was the foremost exponent and practitioner of those ideas and policies which would best serve the cause of world solidarity. Britain had been among the backsliders after the last war, but he hoped that future generations would be able to look back on that phase as a tragically mistaken interlude and set their feet on a course of international policy which would range Britain as a powerful friend on the side of the expansion of peace and progress of the world.

NEW FOOD PRODUCT DISCOVERED

HIGH CONTENT OF VITAMIN B

(Rec. 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. “A new food made from sugar or molasses with a vitamin B content higher than that of animal protein has been discovered by a scientist,” says the “Daily Telegraph.” “Known as ‘food yeast,’ it resembles soap flakes and tastes slightly sweet and rather like meat. “Sir Edward Appleton, secretary of the Chemical Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, estimates that 5 per cent, of food yeast infused into a 21b loaf of bread gives an additional food value equal to four ounces of beefsteak or two eggs. Its value would be higher in tropical and sub-tropical countries where the native diets are often deficient in vitamin B, says Sir Edward Appleton. “Two tons of sugar or four tons of molasses would yield one ton of the yeast. The cost would be about 6d per lb. It is expected that 2000 tons could be produced within six months in Jamaica, where the Colonial Office is sending plant to utilise Jamaica’s surplus sugar. “Dr. A. C. Thayson, who managed the production of food yeast, has emphasised the value of the ‘food in a famished post-war Europe. Pigs fed on food yeast, he said, were three times the size of those not fed on it.”

More Men for Spanish Army.— A proclamation has been issued by the Spanish Government calling the 1943 class to the colours. The cpll-up involves about 150,000 men—Madrid, February 25.