PEACE OF THE WORLD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19769, 10 April 1934, Page 8

PEACE OF THE WORLD

PLACE OF WHITE RACE. /‘lf Australian and the other countries of the world are not able to make the cause of peace potent, you will have to arm, and some day you may have to fight again for the security of your country,” said the Rev. Dr F. W. Norwood, of the City Temple, London, in an address at the Newcastle Town Hall, New South Wales, recently. “My travels and observations have confirmed the idea that the Pacific Ocean will be the great world theatre of the next few decades at least,” Dr Norwood stated. “There is a tide of unrest running through the whole of the non-white world. There is to-day a very direct and very determined challenge to the hegemony of the white race. In my judgment, it is a challenge that cannot be frustrated, and one that ought not, in the justice of things, to be denied.” Dr Norwood said he was not pleading with Australians to arm themselves for future conflicts. His purpose was completely the opposite. He realised that nothing could save the world except a moral and spiritual revival. He would plead that, if armaments were to go on existing—and he did not see how it would be possible to get rid of, them for a long time to come—they should not be allowed to remain the private property of nations, but should be used in the interests of the world as a whole.