IDEALS OF JUSTICE
RESPECT FOR TREATIES VALUE OF PLEDGES (Reed. April 21, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. The Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, replying yesterday to the debate in the House of Lords on foreign affairs, said it was a tragedy that dissatisfied countries should reject the principles by which international society was intended to be governed.
"There is now no accepted currency in the terms of international intercourse," he said. "The ideals of justice, respect for treaties and the value of pledges are differently interpreted in the interests of national ambition and claims are held to be identical with rights.
Referring to the Dominions, Lord Halifax said: “It is precisely because we have applied our principles of freedom to the various nations in the commonwealth that the commonwealth is as flourishing as it is to-day. The aim of the British Government is to give throughout the Empire the freest play possible to the interests of individual territories and their aspirations for self-government.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 21 April 1939, Page 5
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