DANGERS TO BE AVERTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6

DANGERS TO BE AVERTED

'•We must look ahead and see the kind of lives our children would have to lead if a large part of the rest of the world were compelled to worship a god imposed by a military ruler, 01 forbidden to worship God at all. if the rest of the world were forbidden to read the daily news of their own and other nations, if they were deprived of the truth which makes men free. We must look ahead to see the effect on our future generations if world trade were controlled by a nation or group of nations which sets up that control through military force. It is true that the record of past centuries includes the destruction of small nations and enslavement of peoples, but apart from the greater international morality which we seek today, .we recognise the practical fact that with modern weapons and modern conditions. modern man can no longer live a civilised life if we go back to the wars and conquests of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. “In words of common sense I hope we will have fewer American ostriches in our midst. It is not good for the ultimate health of ostriches to bury their heads in the sand. Only an ostrich would look upon these wars through eyes of cynicism or ridicule.”