TRIUMPH OF PEACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 September 1928, Page 5

TRIUMPH OF PEACE.

THE CHIEF OBSTACLES. CAN THE LEAGUE OFFER SECURITY ? United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.J GENEVA, Sept. 3. Preaching in the cathedral on the eve of the League Assembly, Dean Inge said there were three chief obstacles to the triumph of peace. There was the form of national patriotism taken in modern times. Patriotism was too noble an emotion for outright condemnation. It only needed directing. Fear and the causes of fear must lie removed, or, despite all treaties, war would again come. The third obstacle was that a Government, re'ognising its country, was heading for civil strike, might go to war as 4he only chance of averting internal disruption. The crux cf the whole problem was: Could the League offer the nations security against a nation’s choosing to break the covenant? The ‘‘Daily Chronicle” says the possession of armaments is a stronger motive for war than any of Dean Inge’s three points. The Great War arose from the German militarists’ desire to use the world’s most wonderful Avar machine. v“So far as paper agreements are "■oncerned the Avorld. since the armistice, has really made great progress towards permanent pea.ee,” says the “Chronicle.” “It is most ominous that Europe’s armaments are still greater than before the war.”