ONE COMMON IDEAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23578, 15 August 1938, Page 11

ONE COMMON IDEAL

' “ No two men could be of a more practical and realistic order of mind' than the present Prime Ministers of : France and England,” said Sir 1 Francis Younghusband, in a recent \ broadcast talk. ‘‘Nor could theyhave met for a more practical pur-' pose than that for which they specially met in London recently. Yet ’ in publicly declaring the net result of that meeting they stated that' both Governments had agreed to develop their policy of consultation and collaboration concerning the'defence ‘not only of common interests, but of those ideals of national and international life which unite them.’ These practical statesmen recognised that France and England were united by common ideals, and ideals which were worth fighting for. It was nothing material that ; united the two countries, but something spiritual. And in like manner may we not have a something spiritual to unite not only two countries hut all countries? Might not one common ideal unite the whole world? And what more fitting, what, higher, what more fundamental, ideal could the world have than the ideal of world fellowship—not mere peace which too often has a suspicion of sloth about it, but active, positive, good comradeship, good neighbourship?”