CHOICE AFTER VICTORY

Patea Mail, 3 January 1941, Page 4

CHOICE AFTER VICTORY

BRITISH PEACH AIMS Jititrail peace aims are discussed by Dean Inge in an article in, the Even,ng Standard. “it is, or ought to «. o, plain that we have to choose between some kind of League of Nations which will put a stop to vvar a and competitive and a relapse into the Dark Ages," he Writes. “Tlho last Dark Age, it will be remembered, lasted six hundred years, from 500 to :.100 A.I). There is no law of progress; there is nothing in nature to

• nil the Imiiian race from destroying itself. What ha a happened onco may Lappon again. Tlic difficulties, a s everyone,knows,..are enormous, The last League failed because it looked like an attempt on the part of the victors ef the Groat War to peg down I I’i'M' v.innings, and especially to give them that security which consists in being too strong for any possible hostile combination. 'This, Ihowever, is not quite fair; we at any rate wished to be post. Th,e 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.”