OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 9

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

WORLD FEDERATION (To the Editor.) Sir, —They say it has to be a very serious situation to be without a strain of humour. A publication for December 6. 1939, publishes articles on the question of what to do with Europe when it is conquered. Two parties were formed —the federalists, who wanted the whole of Europe to form a federation on the same lines as the United States—a United States of Europe. H. G. Wells was the champion for that party. The “Sunday Referee” said: "With such ■ a model as the United States and the British Commonwealth, the way is clear for a world democratic federation.” The inter-state party took the British Commonwealth as its model and argued that a Government that has been able to govern and keep the peace of a quarter of the world should be able to govern the whole world. That is Maxwell G»rnet’s view in the London “Times.” Both parties are agreed that a single supreme authority is indispensable. If so, why hasn’t the Most High, who made the world, seen fit to appoint a single supreme authority, other than His own, for the purpose of governing the world of humanity? Whenever a nation has aspired to rule all the other nations the effect has been to combine all nations against that nation, and put it down. The Goths combined to put Rome down. France and England combined to put Spain down, and then England and Austria and Holland combined to put France under Louis XIV down. And please notice that it was this struggle for supremacy over the other nations that exhausted these leading nations and made them as weak as the rest. Ought we not to take notice of the lessons that the history of the past teaches? Even if the object of supremacy over the whole world is attained, how long would it last, before the supreme authority, that they say is needed would find itself so hated by the other nations, on account of its exactions, that the instinct of self-preservation would compel the nations to rise against their oppressor? Divine prophecy in tlie Book of Revelations, Chapter 17 and 18, tells of a great city that rules over the kings of the earth until its allies hate her and rend her flesh "and burn her with fire”—Revelations, Chapter 17, verses 16 and 17.

Let us all hope and pray for a just and honourable peace that will enable all nations to work out their own salvation until the King of Kings comes back, and claims the kingdom that has been his since the foundation of the world. —I am. etc., HANS C. THOMSEN. Solway. August 6.