WHAT HAS WORLD GAINED AS RESULT OF WAR?-VITAL QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 6

WHAT HAS WORLD GAINED AS RESULT OF WAR?-VITAL QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 26. Addressing an Anzac Day gathering, Major-General H. L. Barrotvelough, former commander of the Third Division, suggested that on every Anzac Day it was a privilege and a duty to take stock of oneself. Were his hearers satisfied with the world as it was? W ere the peoples of the world properly housed and fed? Was it true that half the children on earth were undernourished. uncared for, a potential future menace to the world? Were the so-called problems of the world being solved?

Hat) the cx-servicemen of this his country been housed with the speed which might have been shown? Were people in New Zealand satisfied that a full effort was being made, whether every workman believed that his efforts justified full wages? Could New Zealand be satisfied with its relationships with ‘ the outside world? Were New Zealand's trade and relationships with Australia what they should be?

Major-General Barrowclough said it was not for him to answer those questions. Each person present must answer for himself and the judges would be an unseen army which the speaker suggested might be present around them. He could never believe that that judgment would be harsh, for the men who had died were kindly men, not professional men of war, but men who loved the simple ways of life. They loved freedom and they died fighting for it. They wanted every man to have his own home and freedom to work without too many regulations and restrictions. That was their way of life. Could people say today, the speaker continued, that the things for which these men died were being achieved?