A SHRINKING WORLD
WORK OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The close connection between the Melbourne Centenary air race and the work and objects of the League of Nations was referred to by the Rev. Frank Wilkinson hi an address at Wellington College yesterday. Men were Jiving in a changing world and progress was marked by discoveries and inventions, he said.
The great problem confronting civilisation was how the different races were to live in concord in a world in which improved methods of transport were constantly causing distances to shrink.
The nations of today were interdependent and must stand or fall together.
Before the Great War each country had thought itself arbiter of its own destiny, but afterwards nation? had grown more "league-minded." A liberal spirit of collaboration had grown up until the last ten years, when there had been rather n setback. The nationalistic outlook had increased again, and nations were relying for safety on their own armaments.
The Great object of the League was to abolish war. Tlie call was tor won to think impartially, cleanly, and without prejudice, panic, or pride of race. Thirty countries had League of Nations Unions working to indicate that only by international collaboration could inU'i-nntional peace bo maintained.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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205A SHRINKING WORLD Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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