WRONG THNKING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4222, 11 December 1939, Page 7

WRONG THNKING

THE CAUSE OF WORLD TURMOIL. “Why is the world in a turmoil?” he asks. “Why cannot the peaceable 90 pel’ cent, impose their will on the turbulent 10 per cent., who, as is the way with the turbulent, are not likely to be in close or cordial association in their bellicose designs? “The answer is wrong thinking. The 90 per cent no doubt have many faults. Some of them are lazy, others are cowardly, most are selfish, but these faults, some of which cancel themselves out, would not have had such disastrous results as we are witnessing if, behind them alii there was not a state of intellectual confusion. It is this that paralyses the attempts to form a unity among the so-called friends of Peace. It is that that enables the turbulent few to seize and keep the initiative and causes the 90 per cent, to play _so despicable a role.

“If we reduce the political problem of to-day to the dimensions of a single city—say, London or Delhi —

we can easily see what is the right method for dealing with the type of man who is just now keeping Europe in a turmoil. Every citizen would regard such a man as Public Enemy No. 1, and most able-bodied men would be ready to place themselves at the disposal of the authorities responsible for public order. The criminal intentions of the 10 per cent, would be checkmated by the public spirit of the remainder of the community.

“Why is the same procedure not effective on the wider scale of the European Continent? Why do we see small States living in terror and some of them ruthlessly wiped off the map?”—Sir Alfred Zimmern.