WORLD’S WELFARE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1943, Page 5

WORLD’S WELFARE

MR. WALLACE’S ADVICE

“SERVICE TO OTHERS”

RUGBY, March 8. The future well-being of the world, the Vice-President of U.S.A. (Mr Wallace) declared at Delaware (Ohio), to-day, demands not only some control of German education after the war, but also an effective understanding between Marxism, as it is being modified in Russia, and Democracy, as the Western nations are adapting it to. modern conditions. Mr Wallace, speaking at a conference on the Christian basis of a world order, at the Wesleyan University, said that democratic Christian philosophy denied that man was made for war, whether international war, as preached by the Prussians, or class war as asserted by Marxism, but believed ultimate peace was inevitable, that all men were brothers, and that God was their Father. He pointed out that this democratic philosophy pervaded not only the hearts and minds of those who lived by Christianity, but also those wno drew inspiration from Mohammedanism, Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and other Faiths. There was a seeming conflict between freedom and duty, and it will take the spirit oi Democracy to resolve it. Service to others, —the essence of Democracy,.— must capture the hearts of men over the entire world, ,if human civilisation were not to be torn to pieces m a series of wars and revolutions. Democracy is the hope of civilisation. A third world war appears inevitable, unless Western democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding before the conflict ends, said Mr Wallace. That war will be certain if Prussia is permitted to rearm either materially or psychologically. That war is probable if we doublecross Russia. If full employment is furnished, we need not fear a revival of the old line of Communistic propaganda from within after the war; otherwise, such propaganda is inevitable. ' By collaborating .with the rest of the world we shall raise our own liying standard and help to raise the standards of others. Mr Wallace affirmed that Democracy must be tremendously more efficient in the service of the common man. FIVE POINTS PROGRAMME RUGBY, March 8. Vice-President Wallace told representatives of the farm and civil groups that new forms of isolationism were flooding the United States, which if adopted as a national policy would lead straight to a third world war, and threaten national security.

Mi- Wallace outlined a five-point programme which he said was necessary. for permanent peace. First, the United States must throw her full influence behind world efforts to prevent a third war. Second: The devastated European countries must be aided in developing agriculture and industry. Third: The Nazi teaching to German youth must be halted. Fourth: Just international trade relations must be established. Fifth: The United States must cooperate with other nations in aviation and shipping instead of seeking “the Imperialistic American supremacy of the air and sea.”