AFTER WAR'S TIDAL WAVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 9

AFTER WAR'S TIDAL WAVE.

LLOYD GEORGE ON NEW ORDER

FAIR PLAY SUPPLANTS FORCE A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 18. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking in the City Temple at the International Brotherhood Congress, dealt with social problems arising from the war. He said there were many men who had not realised that a great tidal wave had swept away landmarks. Many phases of the old order had gone forever, and the world was richer and safer for their disappearance. Meanwhile we had trebled the electorate, changed hours of labour, and altered the nation's attitude towards Labour. To deal with similar problems other great changes were inevitable. The slums must go, for one thing. He hoped that the great armaments would disappear, not only in Germany, but in other countries, otherwise millions of gallant men had bled in vain. He also hoped the long drawn out wretched misunderstanding with Ireland would disappear, and a new Britain arise freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, poverty, and squalor.

Mr. Lloyd George in concluding, used the idea of fair play to sum up the new spirit wanted to revolutionise the world. He said the League of Nations was an attempt to substitute fair play for force. Germany's departure from fair play had a terrible retribution, and would be a conspicuous warning to all peoples.

There must also be fair play between Capital and Labour. If Labour sought to exercise its power without reference to the resources of each individual industry it would bring ruin to hundreds of thousands of citizens. Neither employer nor labourer had the right, without reference to the community, to say "Am I my brother's keeper?" This was the policy of Cain to his brotherhood.