IN PEACE ALSO

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 3

IN PEACE ALSO

ANGLO - AMERICAN ALLIANCE MUST CONTINUE

“The developing Anglo-American alliance cannot with any safety be limited to wartime collaboration only. Contingent in any tacit alliance with Great Britain is the absolute necessity of following through in close co-operation with that nation during an inevitably chaotic and dangerous postwar period. The wholly disastrous mistake of the United States after the last war was to refuse for peacetime purposes any effective measure of that wartime co-operation which was enthusiastically extended to the Allied Powers in 1917-18. By its isolationist reaction the United States unquestionably then did much to produce conditions which made the rise of Hitler and his exort to unify Europe by brute force natural if not inevitable. If this second intervention is followed by a second withdrawal, the natural anticipation will be a third and even more disastrous European war. The foundations of enduring Anglo-American collaboration are now being laid along two wholly different but perhaps mutually complementary lines. The less realistic of these efforts is the popular movement for political union, whose adherents advocate a precise and formal merger of the United States and the members

of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The other movement, official but much less advertised, is that continuous, detailed, informal, executive co-operation which is being steadily and rapidly developed under the elastic sanction of the Lease-Lend law.” — Dr. Felix Morley, president of Haverford College, in the Philadelphia “Bulletin.”