U.N.O. DANGER

Grey River Argus, 29 January 1946, Page 5

U.N.O. DANGER

Self-seeking Powers

CATHOLIC PRELATE’S WARNING. LONDON, January 27. “The spirit -of goodwill could not exist if nations assembled at the conference were interested only in their own aggrandisement, or concerned with fighting for their own ends,” said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (Doctor Griffin) in a sermon to Catholic delegates to U.N.O. “Power politics is an obstacle to world peace. Many of us dislike the use of the term Big Three or Big Five. It is reminiscent of the Axis. Nations are big or rather are great, only insofar as they work with other nations in a spirit of justice and charity. Might or wealth should never be the criterion whereby we judge a nation s greatness. Another obstacle to world peace was the so-called war of nerves and bitter propaganda of which world had had enough, both before and after Munich. More harm could be done by these methods, even than by actual combat. Nations could not set themselves to the task of peace if they are constantly threatened from outside.”