FORCE OF RIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 6

FORCE OF RIGHT

COMMON SECURITY NEED FACING EUROPE DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY ANGLO-FRENCH SWAY S VIEW OF MR, CHURCHILL (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12.40 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 25. Mr. Winston Churchill in a speech in Paris on the inheritance of western democracies, urged that France and Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder against agression and faithfully bear their part in building up true collective seenrHe refused to accept the view that the onlv choice was between two violent extremes. . After all. lie said. France and England were the chief architects oi modern civilisation and the United Slates of America was the heir and champion pi their ideas. Bather than submit to oppression, there was no length to which they would not go. ''Our cause is good and our rights are ■rood," he continued. "Let us make sure our arms are Rood. Let us make sure our conduct is wise. Let us make sure it is governed by forethought and statesmanship. ~ '■■ , "Although we French, English, and Americans have differences among ourselves and wrangle about, our internal affairs, and although wc arc very much aware of the shortcomings of our civilisation and the need of continual social betterment, We believe fervently that our institutions are such as enable us to improve, conditions and correct abuses steadilv. and to march, every year and every "decade, forward upon a broader front into a better age.

CAUSE OF ORDERED FREEDOM. "We will not surrender these title deeds of individual rights to the morbid regimentation of a totalitarian State, whether it be pressed upon us by force from without, or by conspiracy from within. "After all, we are not, so weak and belpless as .some people make out- Of the British fleet 1 can speak with particular assurance. It certainly is far stronger in relation to any fleet, or combination of fleets, in Europe, than it, was in 1914, and by hiTarige'rnelils which now are being made, by His Majesty's Government, its preponderances certainly will be fully maintained in future.

"There"remains the problem of the air, which, it seems to me, requires (.he most urgent, study by the western democracies and greater exertions than either of them have yet made. "If" the cause of ordered freedom and repfesc'iTfative. go\ ernmeiit, and of rights of the individual against, the State is worth defending, it surely is worth defending efficiently. "Let us make sure that the force of right is not, in the last resort, deprived of the right of force. "We seek peace. Wc seek no territory. We submit ourselves whole-heartedly, nay, proudly, to the. covenant, of the League of Nations. When we seek re.il collective security for ourselves, we offer it most earnestly to all others. "Britain and France ask for themselves no single guarantee of safety and independence that 'they are not willing and resolute to extend to the great German people, with whom we all sincerely desire to dwell in peace and goodwill. I should like to see such a tremendous organisation of nations ready to fall upon (an aggressor that no one would dare jbronk the peace of Europe." FIRST RULE STRESSED TOLERANCE OF OTHERS OPINIONS AT GENEVA jLEAGUE FAULTS EXAMINED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. £5. In his address to the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said that nationalism was strong and antagonism was violent. ' The standard of living might be sacrificed for a standard of armament. After centuries of experience, democracy appeared to be not effete but enduring. Almost every nation had repudiated war as a means of settling disputes. He, recommended an enlargement of the membership of the League, which needed the unqualified loyalty of its members. They must facilitate the adaptation of the League machinery to new developments. He pointed to the illogicality of the rule concerning unanimity in the Council, and the fact that it was necessary to have a unanimous vote before the Council was able to make a recommendation.

It was important that the raw materials problem should be fully discussed. If disarmament was to bo real, it must not only be military. He favoured the taking of immediate steps to advance the re-establishment' of normal financial and economic dealings between the nations of the world. A nation, he said, did not increase respect for its own form of Government by pouring scorn on those of oilier countries. The first rule of an ordered life between tho nations was faith in one's own national tenets, and tolerance of those of others.