EVENTUAL TRIUMPH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 7

EVENTUAL TRIUMPH

DEMOCRACY'S IDEAS OF UNITY PEACE THROUGH HARMONY NZPA—Copyright Rec. 9 p.m. WASHINGTON, Apl. 14. The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, to-day said he was convinced that democracy’s ideas of unity and co-operation would eventually triumph over the forces working for disruption and disaster in the world. Mr Acheson, who was speaking at the Pan-American Day luncheon of the Organisation of American States, said disruptive torces at work in the world divided nations and peoples and turned individuals against each other even in the same country and the same community, while other forces drew peoples and nations together in a common endeavour and harmonised the interests of individuals. He said there was an interesting contrast in the fact that free people were willing to share their privileges and prerogatives with others while repressed people held aloof, suspected the motives of those who offered friendship and aid, and shrank from or opposed co-operative action. “ We can see clearly which of these attitudes is normal and healthy and which is abnormal and morbid,” he said.