EQUALITY OF POWER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 5

EQUALITY OF POWER

UNITED STATES' DEMAND a remarkabjj: article (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assad (N.Z., and A.P.A., and Sun.) Received, June 2t>, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 23. ' The New York World in a remarkable editorial on the Geneva Conference says: "The economic position and growing power of the United States render it certain that Britain cannot maintain in the twentieth century the same relative predominance of the world which she enjoyed in the nineteenth century. All that statesmen can do is to take measures which render peaceable Britain's descent from supremacy to a parity, and America's ascent, to an equal share in world affairs, 'flic Washington Conference was flu 1 first phase', and the present Gonevn Conference is the second of that great transition. Cud willing, other phases will be as reasonable as these. • • ' ' i

"The supreme, lest of statesmanship in this generation will turn on whether the parity of the tinted States and Britain, which is inevitable, is to be

come, the equality of co-operating partners, or the conflict of rivals. That' it ought to he equality of co-operation goes without saying, for rivalry between English speaking peoples so equity matched m power would he . the -worst disaster, which could befall mankind."