BRITAIN AND AMERICA AS TRUSTEES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 2

BRITAIN AND AMERICA AS TRUSTEES

"If the British and American sysr terms were to agree on a common sea policy, there would be no world war, for no State or group of States, however powerful, would dream of challenging, simultaneously, the gigantic resources they control. This solution is at present out of reach. Great Britain is still too entangled in the politics of Europe, the United States too wedded to isolationism, to make discussion profitable. Great Britain has to abandon the illusion that she can keep the peace in an armed Europe, and the United States has to realise that the only lasting basis for her own peace is a control of the seas by the free peoples, which it is. only possible for her to establish in association with British Common-? wealth. Within or between the great stabilised zones of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the American Monroe System, there is no serious risk of war; the units between them produce every kind of foodstuff, raw material and manufactured article, tropical and temperate. May not they be the first to stabilise currencies and relax those barriers to trade and movement which are the greatest cause of social unrest, dictatorship and armament to-day, and so show the world the road to pros-, perity as well as to peace?"—The Marquess of Lothian.