WORLD POLICEMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23012, 13 April 1938, Page 19

WORLD POLICEMEN

INTERNATIONAL FORCE task of arresting war ] PRESERVATION OF PEACE IMPLEMENTING LEAGUE'S WORK The establishment of an international police force to implement the decisions ;of the League of Nations was advocated j yesterday/, by Sir Montague Burton, managing director, of Montague Burton, Limited, the largest chain store tailoring firm in the world, when he arrived at Auckland by the Kin press of Britain. While human nature remained what it was, he said, there would be international bullies, blackguards and blackmailers just as there were in any community, and the only way of inaugurating a reign of collective security and re-establishing international law and order was by raising the machinery he suggested. Sir Montague said the greatest experiment in collective security was the litaf'ue of Nations. Although it had not come up to expectations, it had not been the failure that dictators and de-

tractors declared. In its comparatively «hort existence it had accomplished wonders, and it would have accomplished everything expected of it and everything it had set out to accomplish, had it had at its disposal an international police force to implement its' decisions. . If an international police force were created, then, should a nation disregard the ridings of the league, effective eccnomic sanctions would be imposed upon the gggressor. If that did not act as a deterrent, an international air iorce would be ready to take action, and this would be sufficient to make the offender respect the authority of the League. "Objections may be advanced against an international police force," said Sir Montague, "and the obvious difficulties which stand in the way may be magnified, but. it v is indisputable that the achievement of this ideal and its simultaneous acceptance by many countries would confer the greatest blessing upon mankind "