The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12733, 25 August 1934, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS.

In the present condition of world unrest we are apt to condemn too easily the fruits of the labours of the League of Nations. Admittedly, in the matter of disarmament the League has not accomplished what was hoped for but there are some extenuating circumstances in connection with this major issue which must nor be lost sight of. The first essential is the necessity for taking a long view of international politics for as the inter-dependence of nations grows closer every day so it must lie realised that the inevitable goal is a

single unit of control which will harmonise or restrain those jarring elements which to-day have almost brought the machinery to a stop. Two years have gone by and so- far the Disarmament Conference has iailed to yield any substantial result. To ail lovers of peace this has been <i keen disappointment and some are inclined to suggest that the policy of the League is all wrong and a radical change is the only likely solu tion. With such a view we do not altogether hold. International co-opera-tion is, and must continue t > be, the one course steadfastly to pursue. Possibly the near future will not witness the straightening out of these armament difficulties u hid to-day beset the nations. In self-defence they may even resort to further .fighting. Put in time dependency, one or the other, must come in the p-crh of reasoning and then flic world will realise that the j oliey of the League of Nations was not all for nought. Efficiency in the complicated and delicate machinery of this great international organisation will be created gradually. The League has cone much good in countless avenues. What we have to lealise is that because the world does not yet accept disarmament and the proposition that the defence of each is the responsibility of all those basic principles on which the League is working should not be permanently discarded. . In Pahiatua there is a branch of this far-reaching movement and on Monday night the public will be given an opportunity of listening to an interesting discourse on the subject of the League hv the T?ev. f. H. Wilkinson, M.A., a Dominion viec-president.