EUROPEAN GOAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9

EUROPEAN GOAL.

PEACE AND SECURITY. LORD CECIL’S BROADCAST. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 18. In a broadcast to-day Lord Cecil, president of the League of Nations Union, recalled that for the last 25 years his sole interest in public affairs had been work for peace. After reviewing the Nazi history of aggression in Europe, which had brought about the present conflict, Lord Cecil said that for many years the Prussian rulers had been guided by the doctrine that whatever Germany did was right, and they had maintained that obedience to the German State took the place of all morality. “In the end,’’ he continued, “worship of the State means the worship of force. The Question thus raised is vital for the future of us all. Is force and nothing else to govern relations among States? If it is so, that means complete international anarchy. “Surely,” he added, “we must carry on and complete the attempt begun at the end of the last war to create a more reasonable system of international life. There is no overwhelming difficulty in providing machinery which will secure the supremacy of law among nations as among men, if we really meant to do it. It is not a simple matter, but certainly with faith and a single-minded effort it can be done. Indeed, it has already been done in several parts of the world. He instanced how a few centuries arr o Britain, France. Germany, Italy, and Spain were split up into a number of warring States, but now were ■united into larger unities. “Step bv step we must do the same for Europe,” he said. “The League of Nations was the first att-mpt. and it verv nearly succeeded. The causes for its non-success must be sought out and remedied, and a start should he made to build again a European United States. That is our goal, which we can reach if we are reallv in earnest for peace. The first step is to stop aggressive war. That is why we are P now at war, and never had a nation a nobler cause for which to fip “AVhen it is over, we must reconstruct an international for -pence on the basis of the nrin ci pie that aggressive war is * nt £ ‘ T,n+ioml crime which it is alike tne national ernn f cleoe nt nations interest and „(. r en"th ” to extirpate with all their stren o tn