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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1937, Page 4

•While asserting that it is not impossible for the spirit of European relations to undergo a wholesome and revolutionary change, “Scrutator” writen in the Sunday Times that it will not come about by appeals to sentiment, or by changes in the mere legal and juristic apparatus of peace. It will never come so long as the antagonism between democracies and countries that call themselves ' Fascist is fomented. Nor will the change come about by incantations of formulae like collective security, which. Geneva is not yet in a position to make valid, or by taking on British shoulders the burdens of righting wrong everywhere in the world. It may come by a new practice

among Governments of minding, first and all the time, the trusts that they hold lor their own words; or through the spectacle of a Britain as strong and capable of war as it is moderate and resolute for peace; or by the spread of the conviction that the economic argument may be the most powerful in war as well as against war; or through a rational attempt to remove the injustices of a dictated peace and to convince the discontented that the gentler cures of a sense of baffled ambition or unfair handicap are the most efficacious; or by a hardening ol military thought in the conviction that the defence has now obtained such an advantage over the offence" that purely physical reasons will become the strongest ally of the moral and political argument against aggression; or from a combination of all these tendencies of thought. A cold, enlightened selfishness can in reality be the most potent influence for peace, »t. warm' and generous emotionalism lias made many of the foulest wars in the past.