Need Cooperation To Gain Peace

Northern Advocate, 16 June 1947, Page 5

Need Cooperation To Gain Peace

(Special) WELLINGTON, This Day. Cooperation on a world scale was needed to win the last two wars, said Mr A. E. Tarrant, past president of the Junion Chamber of Commerce and a vice-president of the Junior Chamber International in a broadcast last night. He has recently returned from the third world conference of the chamber, held at Dallas, Texas.

"It requires that the world’s resources in men and materials be pooled and used for the common good with, a single aim—victory. Victory does hot automatically bring peace, but it determines who has a chance to make the peace,” he said.

Stating that the Security Council of the United National Organisation could not keep the peace long in a world full of distrust, tensions, fears and misunderstandings, Mr Tarrant said its success depended upon the will of the people to put its machinery to good use. HIGH STAKES

The stakes were high and failure to make the United Nations work would mean another war during the next few decades. Individual members of every community should know the aims of the United Nations and see that their Governments lived up to its pledges and agreements.

Mr Tarrant gave his impression of the world conference and said that there was nothing fundamentally incompatible between people from all countries provided patience and understanding were exercised by the parties. So long as the main object of the United Nations was not ignored its imperfections would be remedied as a world state of mind suitable to peace developed. DANGEROUS YEARS “If the next 30 years are the dangerous years, then every agency for cooperation, particularly organisations oi young men, must be directed to the next 30 years in order to avert disaster,” said Mr Tarrant.

“The capacity to learn from mistakes and omissions of the past is surely not beyond us. It is not enough that this generation understands. “The next generation must be equipped to continue the work. At this critical stage we must stand together. “We stood together in war and won and ir we continue to stand together in making and strengthening peace we shall win again.”