WORLD CITIZENS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1932, Page 7

WORLD CITIZENS

PLEA FOR COOPERATION

SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN’S VIEWS

“SELFISH POLICIES GONE” ABOLITION OF REPARATIONS i-, .. <. AMERICANS MUST BE WISE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, April 16. Sir Austen Chamberlain, formerly Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the course of a statement to-day said: “We have put our house in order and with a balanced budget can face the future confidently—but not alone. Other nations must contribute if the world is to recover its lost prosperity. Unless we stand together we shall fall one after another into the common pit of misery and decay. “The policy of ‘Each for himself, devil take the hindmost’ has gone. Americans, Englishmen and Europeans must remember they are also citizens of the world. “One longs for Herr Stresemann date German Foreign. Minister) again. Herr Hitler (leader of the Nazis) is no Stresemann. Let us pray that no folly will be attempted lest reaction in Germany breed reaction elsewhere.

“The principle that the United States proclaimed for China—that changes due to force will not be recognised—needs firm assertion for Europe,” Sir Austen declared, “after which we would be astonished by the progress immediately possible. “Does the United States yet recognise, as Europe does, the stronger desire for agreement and co-operation? If Europeans seek salvation by mutual sacrifice they will turn to the Americans expecting them to be not less unselfish and far-seeing. There is no cure for the evil from which the world is suffering unless war debts are dealt with simultaneously in the same spirit as reparations, the abolition of which Americans desire no less than the Englishmen do. Europeans’ sacrifices will be in vain unless wisdom and understanding are also given the American people.”-

FREER TRADE ESSENTIAL

HARM OF TARIFFS EMPHASISED.

‘■‘WOULD-BE SEIF-SUFFICIENCY”

' British Official Wireless. 1

Rec. 6.40 p.m. Rugby, April 17. ’ Dealing with the European outlook in a speech in North Wales last night, Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Lord President of the Council) said nothing had done more harm economically than the splitting of Europe into many would-be selfsufficient States and the post-war mentality that had made all these small units believe they could be self-suffi-cient.

This had created in Europe, Mr. Baldwin declared, a vast network of prohibitions and tariffs which was interfering more than anything else with that freer trade which was essential for the world. ■ ■ i I