A NEW EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 84, 3 January 1940, Page 7

A NEW EUROPE

Daladier’s Vision Of

The Future NOTE OF LEADERSHIP (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 1. Several newspapers today refer to the striking speech by the Prime Minister of France, M. Daladicr, last week, in which he spoke.of recent agreements on economic and financial co-operation between France and Britain, and declared bis view that “a new Europe should have a far wider organization than that which now exists.” The French Premier went on to say. that it would be necessary to multiply exchanges and perhaps to envisage federal ties -between the various States of Europe. This insistence by M. Daladier on the value of Anglo-French solidarity for the future of Europe is remarked upon by “The Times,” while the “’Manchester Guardian” thinks that he has sounded a note of leadership for which the democracies have been looking for many years. ' “His firm tone for the present and his bold views for the future show that the Western Governments have taken tlte initiative and have their own plans for a new Europe,” the “Guardian” continues. “The completeness with which Britain and France can achieve economic unity, and the liberality with which thev can maintain trading relations with other States during the war, will largely decide the prospects of the new Europe.” Tlte “Daily Herald” also commends M Daladier’s vision of the future, saying that he is “the first leading statesman to say what millions of ordinary men and wo,men have been thinking, Everybody with any common sense realizes that the nations must relinquish some of their unrestricted national sovereignty if there is to be any hope of a stable peace and progress.” “The Times” observes; “The Europe of 1939 is gone for ever and few will regret it. Whatever is built out of the ruins will be a very different, and, we must hope, a finer structure. In creating an international order capable of perpetuating peace, we must be prepared for far-reaching changes lin'd it may well be that a national Sovereign State, as Europe has known it for 400 years, will consent to modifications hitherto regarded as impracticable. It is right that even while we grapple with the stern ordeal before us some minds at least should be concentrated on working out those problems that lie far ahead. The immediate task for 1940 is a bitter fight with. an unscrupulous, ruthless, and formidable adversai>-. 4>ut we can face it with a higher courage and a deeper assurance of victory if our hearts are set on the ultimate achievement of a juster world.”