WORLD’S TROUBLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 5

WORLD’S TROUBLES

ONE THING TO DO ABOUT IT. “One of the outstanding statesmen of Europe said to me in private 'conversation a few months ago that the appalling thing was that all this trouble in the world is being caused by 1200 or 1500 men,” said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, speaking at the World’s Fair in New York. “He ii - sisted that the peoples everywhere in these democracies, in these totalitarian States, in Asia and South America, wanted peace and prosperity, but that some 1200 or 1500 human beings in positions of great responsibility and authority, that authority being largely based on emotional grounds, held the policies of the world today in their hands. What can be done about it? There is only one answer, and that is that these peoples themselves must cither compel their existing governments to do as they wish or they must find new instruments of government that will respond to their peaceful ideals and ceasg these policies of pressure and force and threat which are not only terrifying the whole world, but: making impossible any return to prosperity and happiness until these heavy clouds are removed."