DETHRONING HITLERISM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23488, 27 October 1939, Page 6

DETHRONING HITLERISM

LEAGUE OF NATIONS TALK FOUR. PRINCIPLES OF PEACE "It is futile to talk of a new League of Nations with greater powers or of a return to wealth and security unless we are prepared to make our contribution to the removal of injustice and insecurity from national and international life," said Mr. L. W. Holt, president of the Auckland branch of the League of Nations Union, during a talk at the monthly luncheon of the branch held in Milne and Cho.vce's Reception Hall yesterday. Mr. W. T. G. Airev presided. Mr. Holt mentioned that there were four principles of peace—democracy, an international order, restitution and generosity. They were in the main admirable, said the speaker, but whether the people wore prepared to implement them was another question. He was in 'accord with the view that there must be disarmament with no expectation that Germany would remain unarmed while other nations were armed. There must be a new League of Nations with the hesitations and halfcommitments of the old removed and there must be an end of the more senseless forms of economic nationalism. First, however, the menace of Hitlerism must be removed. "There are those who believe that this can' be done only by carrying destruction into the homes and workshops of the German people," Mr. Holt continued. "Fortunately this view is apparently not dominant in the minds of the authorities at the moment. There is y I think, no surer way of dethroning Hitlerism than the presentation to the German people of concrete evidence that the Empire stands for a new world order in which they will share with us, and with others at present oppressed, the best, that this world has to oiler."