CHAOS IN EUROPE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 7

CHAOS IN EUROPE

LESSONS OF THE WAR.

NOT A SYLLABLE LEARNED,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, Ividy 28. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Edinburgh, said that if a man who had been marooned on a desert island in July, 1914, now returned to Europe, the most striking change that he would notice would be. that the world, instead of learning a lesson from the Great War, riiad not learned a single syllable. Suspicion, hatred, and ill-will still prevailed among the nations. As ho had seen a great deal of what had been going on in Europe during recent years, he was filled with genuine alarm at the present outlook. He found now in Europe exactly the same elements that produced the Great War. None could say what the end was jfoing to be. He simply saw a dense fog, into which the nations were driving recklessly and heedlessly. No organisation fof interpreting international rights would be of the slightest use unless it was maintained by disciplined and educated public opinion. Until such an opinion existed in Europe the League of Nations wouldsimply be an object of derision to its critics. No organisation could create the necessary public opinion except the churches of Christ. —A. and N.Z. Cable.