WAY TO WORLD PEACE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 11

WAY TO WORLD PEACE

Federation of Fellowship Suggested FAULTS OF NATIONALISM (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 28. Speaking on the occasion of his installation to-day as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, .Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby observed that nationalism was commonly held up to admiration as a virtue, while internationalism. which was in other words generous sympathy with their fellowmen. was branded as a crime, and a surrender or betrayal of their own peculiar interests and rights. Until this, in his view, regrettable attitude was altered they could not hope for any enduring amelioration in international relations. “Nations maintain internal peace and good order by means of their own organised police forces, who restrain personal and party brawlings,” continued Lord Allenby, “but as yet there are no international police, and nations continue to make war on each other freely. To an unprejudiced and dispassionate observer there can be, however, no obvious reason why rational procedure, which has resulted in the establishment of a happy state by the fusion in amity of once hostile tribes, should not be extended to the creation of a wide comity of nations — an independent yet interdependent world federation of fellowship. “Is it too much to believe,” asked Lord Allenby, “that the human intellect is equal to the problem of creating a world State wherein neighbours can live without molestation in collective security? It does not matter what the State is called; give it any name you please—League of Nations, Federated Nations, United States of the World. Why should there not be world police just as each nation has a national police force?”