RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 5

RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEACE

(8.0.W.) RUGBY, October 12. “The task laid upon us at this moment,” said the Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Bevin, at the opening of the Youth Rally, “is to see this war through to a successful and victorious conclusion in the interests of the younger generation and those who come after them. If we are to have peace we must accept collective responsibility for its maintenance, for it is clear that people cannot buy their safety. Money cannot obtain it, and none of the old devices will secure peace for future generations. It must be fought for and won now and then put upon such a firm foundation that no one will dare to challenge the power of free peoples. “It is the task of the moment then to slay the dragon,” he said. “It will be yours to rebuild and shape the new world. We shall be satisfied if in our day we can say we never faltered or for a moment hesitated in our resistance to this mighty military machine of our enemy, that we have led oui’ people in such a way that final destruction was brought upon him, and that out of the travail we have planned a new highway of opportunity for rising generations to explore and tread. “This war has broken down many of the obstacles that divided the peoples,” Mr Bevin continued, “and I am certain that it is going to remove national and racial barriers that have divided humanity so much in the past. There will spring from it methods of organization which will provide for the cultural, religious and political freedom of mankind and produce a great economic unity. That is the real new order that is going to. he forged by. thiswwas”r s ” ,