CHANGING WORLD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 7

CHANGING WORLD

BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS THE NEED FOR COURAGE BELIEF IN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT ( British Official Wireless.] Received May 24, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, May 23. The Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, speaking at an annual Imperial Press Conference, said:— “We must acknowledge the efforts made during the past twenty years to establish an international peace system, but we have not achieved as much as we hoped. Just as we went to the limit of our power in seeking idealism, so now shall we go to the limit of our capacity in re-establish-ing our strength and assuring our future position to meet the problems which lie before us.” Continuing, he said the British people must face the changing world with courage and conviction borne ol their own convinced belief in their own system of self-government and their own morality. The spirit an: interests of the Empire should guide them. “Cut from your vocabularies, he said, “such expressions as the inevitability of war and show that «r are trained to change and me cement ar we are to the sea, and that this training has taught us, as it will teach others, the way to achieve change. “Any action we have taken recently has been designed to widen the area o; agreement and lessen the area oi conflict. We shall be successful if we face the future in t spirit c.t ccurage and strength. Let us also understand that we cannot control as our intimate responsibility every situation which may arise. We have net taken side with Spain, sir.c, we do not consider this to be our quarrel, and we cannot make ourselves responsible for every change, if changes there be, as the new world unfolds itself, but by not becoming involved in every con flict of extremes our influence will be all the greater on lhe critical occasion when we feel called upon to exert it.”