PRESERVATION OF PEACE.
VALUE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. HOW WAR CAM BE AVERTED. By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright. Australian and £i.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 18. 11.45 ,a.m.) . _v LONDON. September 17. -Lord Robert Cecil, in tlie course of a paper read on his behalf at the Brotherhood Conference, said that although ■war .was so horrible it was better than condoning crime, and until something was substituted to restrain national wrongdoing, war was the only recourse and would recur with increasing ferocity and destructiveness. Every method of keeping the peace, except by a Lague of Nations, had been tried and had failed.' If, however, we relied on. the provisions of the covenant to preserve peace we would be living in a fool’s ■ paradise.- The real motive of peace must be sought elsewhere. The only solution would be the application of the principles of Christianity to international relations, by following the broad bases of mercy, pity, truth and justice’. It was not the covenant of the League of Nations wliich could savo numaliity, but the spirit underlying
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19190918.2.100
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 12748, 18 September 1919, Page 8
Word Count
175PRESERVATION OF PEACE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12748, 18 September 1919, Page 8
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in