MAKING A BETTER PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 7

MAKING A BETTER PEACE

Only in so far as we have all learned the lessons of the failure of the last peace-making, will we do better this time, writes Mr Edwin D. Canham in the "Christian Science Monitor.” We should base the settlement on fairness and equity, rather than selfishness and greed. The last peace was unworkableboth economically and politically. Excessive nationalism at the Versailles Conference started it off wrong, and excessive nationalism—which is another way of describing narrow isolationism —in the shape of America’s refusal for ten years to have anything further to do with the continuing task of peacemaking, prevented the nations from salvaging anything from the wreck of Versailles. The next time, every nation—particularly as big and powerful a one as the United States—must take its share of the responsibility in preserving peace. Because, make no mistake, even if we Americans never enter this war, or future wars, we shall feel their effects. This world is one world, mankind is a brotherhood, and We cannot cut ourselves off from our brother nations, any more than we can from oui' brother man.