LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

MR BALFOUR'S VIEWS

ALLIED VICTORY THE FIRST

ESSENTIAL

(Received Aug. 3, 9.10 a.m.)

LONDON, Aug. 2. Mr Balfour said there was a unanimous desire to create machinery to spare future generations the horrors of war. Germany to-day was using economic weapons against subject nations in such a manner as to sow the seeds for future wars. He was prepared vehemently to preach the doctrine of a League of Nations. The German people had not yet arrived at an attitude of abhorring the miseries and brutalities of war, and was not yet genuinely looking forward to the time armies would be disbanded and nations would live in freedom and amity. A repetition of this world catastrophe would leave civilisation bankrupt, and believers in a League of Nations must warmly advocate the pressing of the war to a victorious conclusion. Any weakening of our aims would be a crime against national pride and the principles of general peace, for which we are fighting. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.