MUST BE FOUGHT FOR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 2

MUST BE FOUGHT FOR

THE FUTURE OF THE LEAGUE. “i do not think nearly enough emphasis was laid on the principle which Lord Baldwin once formulated in the phrase, ‘You can only have peace if you are ready to fight for it.’ I used to get into trouble with my friends for saying that as it had cost one war to establish the League it might cost another to establish the League’s authority. But I wish to heaven that we had so far worked in and through the League as to make this war a fight tor the league's authority. There was a flaw within the League itself. It tried to combine the principles of national sovereignty and collective security. The result was that when a sharp issue arose, each Government, besides trying to swing the Council or Assemblj- of the League toward that policy which served the interest of its own country, still consulted the interest of its country in deciding whether or not to uphold the authority of the League. This occurred till tlje several peoples believed that in all circumstances the upholding of the Covenant was for each its primary interest. If at the end of this war we are in a position to influence the new settlement, we must be prepared to choose between the two principles of national sovereignty and collective- security.”—Dr Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury.