TRAGEDY OF ERRORS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4188, 24 May 1939, Page 10

TRAGEDY OF ERRORS

NEW ETHICAL WORLD ORDER NEEDED. < “The old adage is true, not only for art and politics, but for life in its entirety—only order and measure can lead to freedom,” declares Count Hans Hayn, in his book, “Tragedy oi Errors.” “It is all the more important to realise this in an age when disregard of forms and laws has plunged us into a chaos which incapable men are attempting to master with brute force. Force c,an never give us the form which leads to freedom.

“There is less hatred among nations to-day, despite all attempts of nationalistic agitators to inflame it,’’ says Count Hayn in his concluding chapters. “A chasm divides the different nations, but a chasm from which has sprting a mental solidarity bridging old prejudices between the peoples. Between the new camps formed by this division the decision will fall, and not. between the peoples.

“Those Germans who sat in fear all night long listening to the wireless because they did not want war, who hailed Chamberlain as their saviour in Munich, are they not also in the camp of Europe, like all other men what hate nationalistic aggression?

And Europe must and will be victorious if all the forces of reason are united.

“Then a new ethical world order might be raised on the ruins of the world of nationalism, a world which has reverted to barbarism, and a new order founded on international and social peace. But. this can only be realised if the moral tenets that rule the individual are also applied to States, peoples and classes, in the sense of the profoundest words bequeathed to humanity; the words of our Lord, ‘For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ ”