Peace Aims After the War

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 278, 24 November 1939, Page 12

Peace Aims After the War

ABANDONMENT OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY “Absolute national sovereignty must, bo abandoned after the war," states Mr. Harold Nicholson, M.P., tho bril- ; liant essayist and former diplomat, in , “Why England is at War," a new volume in the Penguin series. He urges that the entire air strength of all nations should be pooled and. controlled by a reconstituted League of Nations. The book indicts Herr Hitler, and points out that the cynical brutalities advocated in “Mein Kampf" have already been put into practice. Surprise is expressed at Herr Hitler’s success, “as he is a proven traitor and coward." Mr. Nicholsou declares that Britain’s motives in going to war arc self-pre-servation and tho preservation of humanity. “We aie fighting against a civilisation which is lower than that which, through centuries of trial and error, we have been able to evolve," he says. Mr. Nicholson praises the propertied classes. “They are," ho states, “deliberately and wittingly prepared to sacrifice the whole of their possessions rather than allQw Hitler an evil triumph. Seldom, has a -whole class committed suicide in so great a cause." He contends that Britain should declare her war aims as, (1) the restoration of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and an independent choice for Austria, and (2) an affirmation that England does not wish to ruin Germany, politically or financially. Tho Very Rev. Phillip Micklem, Provost of Derby, and Vicar of All .Saints, Dor by, in a letter to tho Times, in which ho discusses the position “after tho war," states that self-determining nationalism is an outworn anachronism. “While the churches have au allimportant part to play in vindicating religion, there rests, mainly upon authoritative laity, the responsibility for reintegrating into the life of Europe common acceptanco of the Diviue Will as the final rule in human action."