MORAL BASIS OF A REAL PEACE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 148, 18 March 1940, Page 10

MORAL BASIS OF A REAL PEACE

Prerequisites Stated NEED OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD Mr. Roosevelt Condemns Rule Of Might . tty Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received March 17, 7.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 16. President Roosevelt, in a worldwide broadcast in connexion with the convention of the Christian Foreign Service, declared that the world was seeking a moral basis for DGcice. He added: “It cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognize brotherhood. “It cannot be a lasting peace it the fruit of it is oppression, starvation or cruelty, or if human life is dominated by armed camps. “It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of their powerful neighbours. “It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute. “It cannot be an intelligent peace it it denies the free passage or knowledge of those ideals which permit men to find common ground. “It cannot be it righteous peace it worship of God is denied. “The world, on these fundamentals, did not have true peace in the years between the ending of the World War and the beginning of the present wars. The band of missionaries whom you are meeting to honour understood tins. They permitted no threat to their integrity or to the institutions of the nations in which they worked. They sought to promote international order based on human kindness. For Victory of Ideal. “The active search for peace which the early Christians preached meant meeting and overcoming those forces which set themselves against the brotherhood of man and which denied the equality of souls before the Throne of God. In those olden days they faced ini apparently unconquerable force, yet they were victorious. “I offer my greetings to you as a congregation of faith in the certainty that von will help to keep alive that spirit" of kindliness and faith winch is the essence of civilization. I am confident of your ultimate triumph for the ideals of justice, kindness and brotherhood. Faith cannot die. These highest human ideals will be defended and maintained. In their victory the whole world stands to gain and the fruit of it is peace.” INDIA’S FUTURE Gandhi Demands Right To Self-Determination (Received March 17, 7.5 p.m.) BOMBAY, March 16. • Mahatma Gandhi in an article in the journal “Harijan” declared that Englishmen who were undergoing tremendous sacrifices for the preservation of freedom should not fail to appreciate India's travail. “Congress wants Britain to recognize India’s right to determine her own future,” he said. “It may be Dominion status or a modified or complete form of independence, but India, not Britain, must decide.” He adds that English soldiers must serve in an independent India. INQUEST OPENED Death Of Sir Michael O’Dwyer LONDON, March 15. The inquest on Sir Michael O’Dwyer, a victim of the shooting affair in Caston Hall, was opened at Westminster and adjourned to May 8. The Honorary Pathologist to the Home Oilice, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, described the result of the postmortem and the effect of the two bullets which entered the body. Extensive haemorrhage caused .Sir Michaels death. INDIANS DEPLORE CAXTON HALL SHOOTING (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 17, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, March 10. A resolution expressing detestation of the murder of Sir Michael O’Dwyer was passed at a meeting in India House atended by a large and representative Indian gathering. GERMAN METHODS OF • WAR Frank Italian Statement LONDON, March 15. wn unusually frank statement about the German methods of war was made by General Francisco I’ricolo, the Italian Under-Secretary of Air, to an audience which included Signor Mussolini. He said that at sea the war had turned out to be only pirate warfare conducted by speedy cruisers in the open ocean and by submarines in the North Sea engaged almost entirely against merchant shipping. Aerial warfare has been more or less pirate warfare. He expressed the view that air warfare in mass attacks against military objects or open towns had not yet begun because those who might start it feared retaliation, but he thought that when serious warfare began the air forces of the belligerents would be the determining factor. TRAWLER MEN DECORATED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 15. Six naval ratings who were decorated by. the King yesterday during his visit to the Hover patrol included two seamen serving in a trawler and one seaman who has now returned to civil life as a railwayman.