IS IT POSSIBLE ?

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4285, 27 May 1940, Page 7

IS IT POSSIBLE ?

A FEDERATED EUROPE “My view is that our peace aim ought to be to end this war by a federation of all the present belligerents and all the neutrals deeply implicated and who are suffering by it—Britain, France, Germany, the four Scandinavian Powers, the two Low Countries, Switzerland, and the self-governing Dominions of« this Empire if you can get them. Every one of those nations is a democracy except Germany, which has been democratic. I do not distrust the capacity of Germany for democracy. Imagine a federation like that controlling the armed forces and the foreign policy of all these States! It will have to ensure that all the dependencies of the federation are equally open to trade and migration for all the members of all the States. That is the answer to the German claim of inequality in economic opportunity. This kind of federation will guarantee to make war impossible between the member States, and by guaranteeing other States against aggression it can. make war prdctScally impossible in Europe. It can guarantee order ip Europe and then we can go to the United States and offer to join with her in settling the Ja,panese-Chinese problem. In that way can be laid the foundations of world order.”—Sir William Beveridge, Master of University College, Oxford, in a recent address to the Manchester Reform Club.