Bevin Favours World Parliament

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 5

Bevin Favours World Parliament

(Received 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 13. THE British Foreign Secretary (Mr Bevin), speaking at a Foreign Press Association luncheon in London, said he favoured the immediate establishment of a directly-elected world parliament. It would not come in his time, but he would continually advocate it, because he was convinced that the ordinary people of the world never wanted war. There were many great problems to be settled and no peacemaking had been more difficult than the present. The whole globe, this time, had to be rebuilt and redirected.

Mr Bevin added that if everything discussed became the basis of propaganda and Ministers were induced to make long speeches instead of examining problems scientifically and objectively the task of settling world peace would be more difficult.

erica had acted most unselfishly in trying to use her great capacity to save Europe from another ruin and rehabilitate it as rapidly as possible.

Mr Bevin added that Britain herself had been first in and last out of two world wars, and the result had been that it was impossible for her to maintain her econouijc and financial position, but if anyone thought she was down and out he* should get the idea out of his head.

Mr Bevin said Mr Marshall’s Harvard speech might well rank as one of history’s greatest. It would be disastrous if, for ideological or any other reason, the nations frustrated America in her great endeavour to throw a bridge linking the east and west. As was the case when she proposed a Four-Power Treaty for Europe, Am-

Mr Alhony Eden, and several ambassadors and ministers were in the audience.