COUSINSHIP: THE PEACE TEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1942, Page 4

COUSINSHIP: THE PEACE TEST

Major J. R r Kirk, M.8.E., writes: The following report of a speech made in New York on October 7 last by Mr. Sumner Welles makes a notable supplement to the excellent leading article appearing in the "Evening Post" of Saturday lastj the stark frankness of Mr. Welles's language affording much hope for the future: — "The creation of .an economic order in the post-war world which will give free play to individual enterprise, and at the same time render security to. men and women and provide for the progressive improvement of living standards, is almost as essential to the preservation of free institutions as is the actual winning of the. war. And the preservation of our liberties—all important in itself—is essential to the realisation of the other great objective of mankind, an enduring peace. There can be no peace in a Hitler-ridden world. "After the last wax-, at a time when other countries were looking to us for help in their stupendous task of economic and social reconstruction, the United States suddenly becoming the world's greatest creditor nation and incomparably strong economically, struck heavy blows at their warweakened, detit-burdened economic structures, blows that were heavy morally as well as economically. The harmful effects of this policy on the trade, industry, and conditions of living of people of many other foreign countries were immediate. Our high tariff policy reached out to virtually every corner of the earth, and brought poverty and despair to innumerable communities."