THE WORLD'S HOPE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 11

THE WORLD'S HOPE

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

OTHERWISE CATASTROPHE

"The w.orld is bankrupt without such an ideal as the League of Nations, even if not. exactly in its present form, and if hope in the League is abandoned, there can only be-catastrophe ahead," said the Rt: Rev. I-I,: St. B. Holland, Bishop of Wellington, during the course of a short address to the League of Nations Union Conference today. ■ The League, said" his Lordship, was the one:hopeful element in the world situation. During the recent terrible days in England, many who, had never spent ' sleepless nights except with. domestic trouble, found the atmosphere so tense that they felt the.situation to • be their own personal disaster. In England there was certainly a feeling of defeatism. He was afraid •that the ' feeling was getting, such a grip of many people that the League might not obtain enthusiastic -support in the future. . • .. •■■' He rejoiced to think that in New Zealand the Government still stuckwith the League. In England, he said, the League of Nations Union had accomplished-a tremendous .lot without knowing it.' The results of the peace ballot last year had surprised even the officials, and had certainly captured the imagination of the thinking public. It was in such work, and in the League, that the future \lay. .