MUST BE BASED ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 60, 4 December 1942, Page 5

MUST BE BASED ON HUMAN RIGHTS

New Order After War CLAIMS OF HUMANITY SUPREME

OTTAWA, December 2.

Arising from the maelstrom of war, the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, tonight envisaged a new world order and new world unity, when speaking at the Pilgrims’ Dinner in New York. “The war for freedom,” the Prime Minister stressed, “will not have been won when fear of Nazi and Japanese domination has been destroyed. The era of freedom will be achieved only as human welfare and social security become the main concern of men and nations. New order must tie world order. It must be governed Iby the universal rule of law. It must be based on human rights, not on rights of property, privilege or position. “In perspective of time the extension of the war to all parts of the world might prove to have been a blessing in disguise. Only in that’way, perhaps, could we have come to realize that the Interests of mankind are one, and that the claims of humanity are supreme. The present conflict owed its origin to two wholly different interpretations of life and of the purpose of life; the one material, the other spiritual. “We have seen to what destruction and desolation the material interpretation has led.” The Prime Minister continued: “The spiritual interpretation of life teaches us that all human life is sacred, that we are members one of another, that the things we .have in common are greater than those which divide., that each is his brothers’ keeper. Those great truths have been given new meaning by war. The way of co-opera-tion and mutual aid is not only the road to victory for the United Nations, it is also the path to freedom and equality for all.” Canada’s Vital Hole. The Prime Minister related how in the three armed forces of Canada now almost 000,000 men are on active service, with tens of thousands’ more enrolled in the Reserve Army. "The Canadian 'Navy,” he said, “is performing more than a full third of the vital and hazardous duty of escorting convoys across the North Atlantic. It has its part iu anti-submarine patrols on both coasts of the American continent and in the Caribbean. Ships of the Canadian Navy shared in recent operations in the Aleutians. 'Seventeen Canadian corvettes helped escort American troops to North Africa. Canadian airmen fighting on almost every front from our Atlantic coast, through Britain, continental Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, the Far East and the Pacific, around the world to our own western shores share with other forces of the United Nations their perils and glories wherever there is conflict in t'he skies.” “Canada is producing 95 per cent, of all the nickel and 40 per cent, of all the aluminium used by the United Nations. She id supplying about 2001 b. of food per annum for every man, woman and c’hild in the United Kingdom. About a million war workers are employed in Canada’s arms and munitions plants and shipyards.” This took no account of additional hundreds of thousands of miners, lumbermen, farmers, fishermen, transport workers and others engaged in essential war work. Canada had the largest small-arms plant on t'he American continent and one of the largest in the world. She had the second largest tank arsenal on the continent.

Ships And Munitions.

In cargo shipbuilding Canada occupied third place among the United Nations. Already the automotive industry had produced more than 300,000 military vehicles. Canada had produced guns of every kind from rilles, light machineguns to field artillery and naval guns. Aircraft production had risen from 40 a year to four hundred a month. In the present year Canada had supplied Russia with tanks to the

value of 50,000,000 dollars, and with other war supplies to the value of an additional 50,000,000 dollars. Canadian clothing in considerable quantities was helping to keep Soviet armies warm. Canadian artillery and small arms ammunition' was being supplied to Chita. Motorized arms and ammunition equipment from Canada was also being used in Australia and the south-west Pacific. “Canada’s wax - effort,” the Prime Minister added, “could never have reached its present proportions but for the co-operation we have receved from the United States from the very outset of the war.

Canada was able to strip the defences of hex’ coasts to send her fighting ships and her trained fighting men to Britain because we knew we could count on the strong arm of a good neighbour.”