Manawatu Evening Standard. SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1945 PROCEDURE FOR PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 26, 29 December 1945, Page 4

Manawatu Evening Standard. SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1945 PROCEDURE FOR PEACE

The nations are keenly awaiting the peace terms to be imposed on the defeated Axis Powers and their satellites. In Moscow one of the - most important conferences of the year has been held and has achieved an outstanding success. It is the more noteworthy because of the failure of the Foreign Ministers in the earlier London Conference to reach unanimity. Realising the enormous responsibility resting on their task, the members of the Moscow Conference went very deeply into the problems facing them and the results of their deliberations have been made public. Very important are their recommendations concerning the future control of atomic energy, as outlined in the cables today. The keynote of the Ministers’ proposals, which will go to the General Assembly of the United Nations, is the maintenance of international peace and security and they desire that- a commission shall be established by the Assembly to make reports and recommendations to the Security Council, these to be made public, unless it be in the interests ■ of peace and security to keep them secret. ’ The. commission will make specific proposals not only in regard, to the control of atomic energy.for peaceful ends, but also with the aim of eliminating from national armaments “all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction.” It will be realised, therefore, that the Moscow decisions encompass a very wide field ■ and go much further than any previous attempt to ensure world peace. The three Foreign Ministers have shown that they possess ' the will to peace and determination to do everything possible to outlaw war effectively. The outline of the procedure decided upon at Moscow, after indicating the methods to be airplied in Europe, provides for solving the very difficult problem of Japan. The Foreign Ministers have decided that a Far Eastern Commission and Allied Control Council are required and on the Commission eleven countries, including New. Zealand, will have representation". This body will take the place of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission and will have the responsibility of formulating “policies, principles, and standards in conformity with which the fulfilment by Japan of her obligations under the terms of surrender may be accomplished.” The Commission will not, have power over the conduct of military operations and will not make recommendations with regard to territorial adjustments. The whole plan decided upon in Moscow is a comprehensive one and the United Nations are making more careful preparations for peace on this occasion than they made in the months following the First World War. The world’s scientists have made' available such terrible powers of destruction that the "great nations dare not make peace terms that are not based on the most permanent of foundations that can be devised. The closest unity and co-operation among all the United Nations are required, and the very encouraging news from Moscow will be hailed throughout a world living in hope that never again shall war ravage the earth.