International Post-war Organisation

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 48, 26 February 1943, Page 5

International Post-war Organisation

RUGBY, Feb. 24. “The immediate post-war task is to disarm the aggressor nations and put it beyond possibility that they can trouble the peace of the world again until enough time has elapsed for a genuine, deep change of heart and mind among their misguided and deluded peoples,” the British Minister of Homo Security, Mr. Herbert Morrison, said in the Guild-hall to-day when defining the British Government’s views on a postwar international organisation. It was natural and right, Mr. Morrison said, to look forward to the period in which the victorious Allies would be the guardians of world peace. A special responsibility w.ould rest upon the Great Powers, particularly Russia, the United States, China, and Britain. The sword of world justice and.,world sovereignty would be in the hands of those four nations. They must see that, in the course of time, they mobilised, behind the effective power they would wield, the free consent of all the free peoples of the world, including the politically reconstructed nations who had been the victims of the Axis. This pointed towards the creation, in due time of a genuinely representative world political association. This association would have to provide the means by which the peoples of the world would find the solutions to world problems. Such solutions must no longer be sought by the perilous bargainings of separate armed nations, but by reasoned and moderate joint approaches to questions of difficulty and problems of change—approaches in which there would be a general readiness to sacrifice the old idea of unrestricted national sovereignty in the interests of common action, for if that was the Utopian ideal, then any hope of world peace was an illusion. His Majesty’s Government was committed to this objective. A world association, as fully representative as the League of Nations was not, was the aim, with a unified resolve to work out and implement a positive policy. It should possess sufficient force to achieve its agreed purposes and restrain those who would impede them. Mr. Morrison added that this did not mean the maintenance of heavy armaments, but readiness to jump by mill tary action on the potential aggressor.