“MEREST MOONSHINE.”
WORLD POLICE FORCE. “In the present state of Europe, it is the merest moonshine to di-eam of the League of Nations controlling an international force that will compel nations to keep peace and bomb them if they do not,” declared Dr Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow, in a speech at Oxford. “The prestige of the League,” he said, “has fallen. It lacks the power to goveni and inspire nations. You cannot change men’s hearts by signing papers or make them moral by Act of Parliament.
“Nevertheless, no important country at present dares to make war. The people in some would not march and others lack the money. Britain and America, whose will for peace is the strongest, control the world’s finances, but these favourable conditions may not last long. National Governments based, on repression and force cannot endure indefinitely. “When nationalist harriers are broken down, Europe, and then the world, will become a single economic system. The United States of Europe will be born sooner or later.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 305, 22 November 1934, Page 8
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