LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12504, 17 December 1918, Page 6

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TO tn EBITOB. Siij—Tlie people or New Zealand are buoyed up by talso hopes. They look to the coming Peace Conference, to establish a League of Nations and thus cud war. Alas for human hopes 1 .All history is strewn with the wrecks of such efforts. Both Greece and Homo tried the experiment, and it ended in utter, failure- So long as, the nations are grouped in alliances some combinatiop will always consider itself strong enough to defy the power of the league and tear up treaties. Tho war has not removed tho causes of friction. Tho struggle between Italy and tho Balkan States over Albania and Dalmatia and the control of the Adriatic will load to future wars, and tho partition of China, will also involve another great war. The Holy Alliance was evolved to end war, and it failed. The Austro-Danish-Gennan League did not prevent the robbery of the Danish Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. The cause of all wars arc territorial and trade concessions. Exclusive land and trading monopolies necessitate huge armaments, winch involve war. The only wav to remove this incubus is by the adoption of international free trade, the abolition of protective tariffs, which promote strife and hatred, and to democratise land by the single tax on land values.—l am, etc., • , GOLDEN RULE.