BASIS FOR PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23512, 24 November 1939, Page 10

BASIS FOR PEACE

EUROPEAN UNITED STATES LEAGUE OF NATIONS LUNCHEON Stating that the idea of the United States of Europe was definitive and inevitable, Professor J. Stone opened the discussion at the monthly luncheonhour meeting of the Auckland branch of the League of Nations Union in the Fabian Club's rooms yesterday. The idea involved the establishment of organs of international government with two primary functions —the resistance to attempts at violent change in Europe and the enforcement of peaceful change when required for the welfare of the people. Subsidiary functions were the determination and ultimate control of the territorial possessions of all European States, to ensure the fair distribution of economic opportunities, to compel all the States to observo minimum standards of conduct and establish minimum conditions of living, to settle the conditions of labour and to protect the free cultural development of minorities. Professor Stone contended that economically, politically and culturally the idea was feasible and absolutely necessary and inevitable. The United States of Europe was the only type of settlement that could form the basis of a constructive peace.