LAW & GOOD FAITH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1944, Page 4

LAW & GOOD FAITH

IN THE POST=WAR WORLD SET AGAINST HITLER’S CREED. ADDRESS BY MR EDEN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, March 28. “The Allied nations accept that after the war the world community will be composed of a number of independent States,” said the Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, speaking at the Free Church Federal Council in London today. “But,” added Mr Eden, “they did not contemplate that there should be any kind of super-State.” Mr Eden had referred to Hitler's declared philosophy of a naked struggle for existence —that the law of the jungle is the only one that could prevail. Against this, the positive creed in international affairs after the war could only be a total antithesis to the Hitler philosophy. It was a conviction that nations are interdependent, and that there will only be an enduring peace if they strive to keep faith with one another.

“We have tried,” Mr Eden continued, “to set out this conception in documents. We agreed at the Moscow conference and in the communique issued after the conference at Teheran. But we must realise that in the world in which we live the independence of States can only be secured through international co-operation. Mr Eden added: “Peace itself would be a sterile thing if it were not accompanied by the right of free expression and development, and, for that purpose we need an increase in human welfare, so that men may have time and opportunity for something else than a mere struggle for existence. How should we do it? Not by imposing the will of one nation or group of nations on all the rest, but by those processes of ordered discussion, inside the framework of freely accepted institutions, by which alone a permanent advance can be won. This is the work upon which we are now pngaged.”