COMITY OF NATIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22406, 30 April 1936, Page 11

COMITY OF NATIONS

NEED FOR FELLOWSHIP VISCOUNT ALLENBY'S VIEWS British Wireless RUGBY, April *8 Viscount Allenby, speaking at his installation as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, observed that nationalism was commonly held up to admiration as a virtue, while internationalism was branded as a crime and the surrender or betrayal of one's own peculiar interests and rights. Until this attitude, which, in Lord Allenby's view, was regrettable, was altered they could not hope for any. enduring amelioration in international relations. "Nations maintain internal peace and good order by means of their own organised police forces," continued Lord Allenby, "but as yet there is no international police, and nations continue to make war on each other ir'reely. "To the unprejudiced and dispassionate observer, however, there can be no obvious reason why rational procedure, which would result in the establishment of a happy state by the fusion in amity of once hostile tribes, should not be extended to the creation of a wide comity of nations, an independent yet interdependent world federation of fellowship. "Is it too much to believe that human intellect is equal to the problem of creating a world State in which neighbours can live without molestation in collective security? It does not matter what the State is called. Give it any name you please—the League of Nations, the Federated Nations, or the United States of the World. "Why should there not be a world police just as each nation has a national police?"