WHY SMALL NATIONS ARE PEACEFUL.
“It was not true to say that the multiplication of small States was a menace to international peace, said Professor Charles Sarolea, in a speech reported in the “Scotsman.” “Small nationalities must necessarily pursue a defensive policy, they could not pursue an aggressive one. In the near future the authority the League of Nations might nr might not be challenged, Rnt if it were challenged, it would bo challenged by the big Powers, who would refuse to Mi’'vendor their sovereignty or abdicate one of their ambitions. It would not be challenged by the small States, because the League of Nations had been created mainly to protect tiny small and weak States against the encroachment of tho strong. The political ideal of the big Powers was in flat contradiction of the ideal of the League. ,It aimed at a system of alliances resulting in a balance of power which, in the long run, must lead to war. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 2
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