The Northern Advocate “NORTHLAND FIRST” Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1943. NEED FOR WORLD BROTHERHOOD.

Northern Advocate, 5 October 1943, Page 2

The Northern Advocate “NORTHLAND FIRST” Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper. TU ESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1943. NEED FOR WORLD BROTHERHOOD.

THERE is common acceptance of the contention that unless the brotherhood of man becomes more than an abstraction to which people give lip-service, hopes for lasting peace in the world are slender and delusive.

That, the war will be won by the United “Nations is assured, because the Allies possess, or will possess, overwhelming forces of destruction. It is true that their quarrel is just, which twice arms them, and it is true also that their purpose is to safeguard liberty in the world, not to wreak vengeance on wicked men who have brought unspeakable horror to the nations. To that extent, the Allies occupy a position very different from that of the Axis Powers.

j But, when the forces of destruction have done their work, there will be presented lo the United Nations the more difficult task of winning the peace. How is that to lie clone? From a material point of view, it would seem that a properly constituted League of Nations, disciplining a disarmed world by means of an international police force, should be able to usher in an era of peace. We believe it would be able to do this, providing it was built upon a solid foundation —the spirit of brotherhood. How is that spirit to be fostered and strengthened? The human mind reels when confronted with this problem. When the meannesses, and the pettinesses, and the back-bitings, and the false accusations, and the jealousies and suspicions of which people in even small communities are guilty are taken into consideration, it may well be asked how peoples of different nationalities and different standards of thought, and all possessing the frailties of mental and moral make-up which afflict the peoples of every nation, would be able to live in brotherly love and harmony. The building of “a- foundation of brotherhood is the all important prerequisite to that “divine far-ofl event to which the whole creation moves.” The task of building cannot be delayed. The only alternative is. the continuance of a state of affairs which has brought two devastating wars in a lifetime. •* It is to arouse public opinion to this need that earnest efforts are being made to inspire a spiritual conception of the problem confronting the post-war world. Without this conception, the Atlantic Charter and all the other agencies proposed to bring about peace in the world must fail to achieve the purpose.of their designers.

ANOTHER LANDING IN ITALY.

THE war in Italy continues to progress satisfactorily for the Allies. The latest development is a landing some fifteen miles north of the point reached by the Eighth Army in its advance up the eastern coast of the peninsula. This landing has assisted the Allies,-the enemy being engaged on two fronts, and may be expected to have a salutary effect upon the fighting north of Naples, where the United Nations have made good progress despite strong opposition. The most interesting feature of the new landing is the report that the British battleships- Rodney and Nelson covered | the operation. The fact that these great ships were able to i penetrate the Adriatic is convincing proof of the command of the • Mediterranean now enjoyed by the United Nations. Even the [most hazardous commander would have refused, less than three [months ago, to send a battleship into the Adriatic. Now the ships can come and go as they please. This must inevitably have far-reaching effect upon the ] United Nations’ strategy. It will facilitate attacks on territory jto the east of the Adriatic, to the south of France and to the j north-west of Italy, In view of the success of the land forces, 'there is little doubt that other big movements are in contemplation by the United Nations. Whether they will take the shape j of an invasion across, the Channel or in the Aegean remains to be ■ scon. Certain it is that the Anglo-Americans will do everything [possible to increase their pressure upon Germany before winter j compels relaxation of effort by Russia on the eastern front.