PEACE AND SECURITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1944, Page 5

PEACE AND SECURITY

POST-WAR ORGANISATION

MR. ROOSEVELT’S STATEMENT WASHINGTON, June 16. “The maintenance of peace and security must be the joint task of all peace-loving nations; we have therefore. sought to develop ■ plans for an international organisation, comprising all such nations. The purpose of the organisation would be to maintain peace and security and assist in the creation, through international co-operation, of the conditions of stability and well-being necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among the nations.” This statement was made by Mr. Roosevelt on the proposed post-war international peace organisation. He said he had held many conferences with officials of the State Department in the last 18 months. All plans and suggestions of.groups, organisations, and individuals had been carefully considered. He emphasised the entirely non-partisqn nature of the consultations and said all aspects had been debated in a co-operative spirit. e “It is our thought that the organisation would be a fully representative body, with broad responsibilities for promoting and facilitating international co-operation through such agencies as may be found necessary to consider and deal with problems of world relations,” said Mr. ®Rbosevelt. “It is our further thought that the organisation would provide for a council elected annually by a fully representative body of all nations, which would include the four major nations and a suitable number of other nations. The council would concern itself with the peaceful settlement of international disputes and with the prevention of threats to peace or breaches of the peace. There would also be an international court of justice to deal primarily with justifiable disputes. “We are not thinking of a superstate with its own police force and other paraphernalia of coercive power. We are seeking an effective agreement and arrangements through which nations would maintain; according to their capacities, adequate forces to meet the needs of preventing war and of making impossible deliberate preparation for war, and have such forces available for joint action when necessary.” Mr. Roosevelt said all this would become possible once their present enemies were defeated and effective arrangements made to prevent them from making war again. Beyond that the hope of a peaceful and advancing world would rest upon the willingness and ability of peace-lov-ing nations, large and small, bearing a responsibility commensurate with their individual capacities, to work together for the maintenance of peace and security.

MR. NASH’S VIEWS

WASHINGTON, June 16

Mr Walter Nash, speaking at the National Press Club as Chairman of the International Labour Office, said: “There will in the new world be wars larger, longer and worse than the present unless the leaders of the nations' improve the conditions of the workers throughout the world.” Mr. Nash criticised capitalists going to China and other cheap labour markets to produce goods for sale in higher price markets, saying he 'was of the opinion that the practice could not last if we wanted to avoid wars. Citing the average life expectancy in India as 27 years, compared with New Zealand’s 67 years, he commented: “No lasting peace can be written while the ratio continues' 2767.”