TASKS OF PEACE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4429, 23 May 1941, Page 6

TASKS OF PEACE

MOULDING THE IMPLEMENT. “What a poor result of all we shall have endured it would be if we did not learn from the ordeal, the worth and potency of unity and the barren harvest of contention for the sake of contention. Under pressure of a struggle for life we have found for our hand the weapon capable of attaining victory, and the same weapon may be adapted for accomplishing the tasks which peace will present. There are major readjustments, social and economic, which transcend party differences on the old lines; and there is no reason why the co-operation of parties should not be as efficacious in contriving these readjustments as it has been in coping with the emergencies of war. Nor should such co-oper-ation be too difficult to ensure, though no practical discussion of it has yet begun. If the Prime Minister can crown his achievements as head Of a national Government by carrying its unifying influence into the post-war future, he will indeed have deserved well of his country. He will then prove how truly, under his inspiration, ‘peace hath her victories not less renowned than war.’ ’’—The “Daily Telegraph,” London.