POST-WAR WORLD

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24001, 16 July 1943, Page 6

POST-WAR WORLD

PROBLEMS DISCUSSED .Problems of international organisation and the maintenance of world peace were discussed by members of the Canterbury Post-war Reconstruction Society at a meeting last evening. Mr T. Ewer, who presided, said that the most important of all the problems that would confront the world after the war was how to avoid another war. Miss M. Kennedy, who was m Geneva at the time when Italy was about to make war on Abyssinia, discussed the work of the League of Nations and emphasised the need for some form of international law and order in the world. Mr E. Hitchcock, who spoke on the plan for Federal Union, said it was the only concrete proposal for any definite construction in framing some form of international authority or world organisation. Federal Union was a proved form of government which had been tried in various forms in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Switzerland. Other suggested plans for international organisation were dealt with by Miss M. Eaton, who said that any plan suggested should provide for some sort of international police force to be used in the interests of justice, and if should be likely to win popular support Dr. K. Popper, who summed up the discussion, dealt with the difficulties of international organisation, and proposals that organisations operating in war time should be developed on an international basis after the war.