CHOICE AFTER VICTORY
British peace aims are discussed by Dean Inge in an article.in the Evening Standard. "It is, or ought to be, plain that we have to choose between some kind of League of Nations, which will put a stop to wars and competitive armaments, and 5 relapse into 4he Dark Ages," he writes, "The last Dark Age, it will be remembered, lasted 600 years from 500 to 1100 A.D. There .is no law of progress; there is nothing in nature to prevent the human race from destroying itself. What has happened once may happen again The difficulties as everyone knows, are enormous. The last League failed because it looked like an attempt on the part of the victors of the Great War to peg down their winnings, and especially to give them that security which consists in being too strong for any possible hostile combination. This, however, is : not quite fair; we at any rate wished to be just. ' The League failed because certain powerful nations did not want peace. They had other ideals. Their repudiation of pacific intentions has been quite open and explicit." : -' ;: a ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24492, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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