NEW WORLD ORDER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 3

NEW WORLD ORDER

REBUILDING AFTER THE WAR BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES VIEWS OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL The opinion that the English | speaking peoples, with their ideals jand traditions, were better fitted I than any other people to lay t'he foundation of a new world order alter the war. was expressed bv the Governor-General. Sir Cyril Newall. addressing the English-Speaking Union in Wellington yesterday afternoon. “The world at the moment is, to put J it. roughly, in a frightful mess." said Sir Cyril. "Destruction and desola-1 l ion are on all sides. We are assailed | jby the powers of evil. But we arc i going to win. When the war is fim- ’ ished someone will have to build a new [world out. of the chaos which must, i inevitably result from the present' | conflict. We must be concerned about who is going to do that work in the interests of humanity. I say that the (British people, and peopl..* with their ideas and traditions, are the people to | do it ! “We, as a nation, arc not dictators. I Our people are allowed to worship God in the way they please. They have! freedom of thought and freedom of (speech. 1 am convinced, therefore, ; that the people of the British Commonjweath of Nations are in a position to 'lay the most secure and most lasting ; foundations for a new world. “We have our faults, as everyone ( has—faults that engenders hatred and I call for forgiveness. But. if wo realI ise them and endeavour to overcome them, there is no harm done. COMMON HERITAGE j “The English and the American i people have a common heritage. They have language, law, traditions and ideals in common. Exactly as the American people find things they don’t like in England, so we find things we don't like in America. But we are the same people fundamentally in our outlook. God knows we have to be thankful for what they are doing for us now in America. "We two peoples should, therefore, get together, in the closest possible J union. The closer that union now, the closer will be the bond that will unite J our children, to whom, at no long disjtant time, we will all have to hand ; over everything that we hold as sacred land to be cherished. Thus will be created a great force on sound traditions I to build up a new world, i "We have a responsibility after this I crisis, and a responsibility now to see that our children are so educated that they will be able to face the task of i reconstruction that must fall on their j shoulders.” I Movements such as the EnglishSpeaking Union would help to fit the ! post-war generation for its task, said j Sir Cyril in conclusion. He expressed i the hope that the union would form a national headquarters, which, he bejlieved, would help to extend the influence of the organisation.