PEACE TREATIES
ADDRESS BY DR ELDER Dr J. R. Elder, professor of history at the University of Otago, last night delivered a lantern lecture on ‘ Great Peace Treaties.’ The lecture, which was given under the auspices of the Otago branch of the League of Nations Union, dealt with the great treaties which had changed the map of Europe. Maps were shown illustrating the history of Europe from the founding of the Holy Roman Empire to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, while the theories of such outstanding figures as Luther, Erasmus, Richelieu, and Frederick the Great were touched on.
Dr Elder finally dealt with contemporary theories regarding the making of world peace and the revival of the League of Nations. The times discredited Utopian theories, he said, but few would deny that a League of Nations Council could fulfil a valuable purpose as a consultative and educational body. The use of power was a grim necessity, but it served to obtain stability until moral precepts and ideals took root. In the realisation by all men of all nations that force could not give a permanent solution to world problems, and that man should return to the theocratic ideal of the mediaeval epoch, lay the hope of the world.
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Evening Star, Issue 23907, 10 June 1941, Page 6
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