FOR WORLD PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 62, 16 March 1943, Page 5

FOR WORLD PEACE

SMUTS ON COLLABORATION SOME POST-WAR PROBLEMS DISCUSSED (Bj’ Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright) Recd. 9 p.m. Johannesburg, March 14. General Smuts, replying to questions on the post-war world put by the representatives of the British United States, said that he believed collaboration between the British Commonwealth and America and their Allies would be the best guarantee for world peace. The Atlantic Charter and other instruments new taking shape all pointed toward collaboration as opposed to the oldtime competition in economic and foreign policies. “Provided the Axis nations are disarmed and precaution against future rearmament taken,” he added, "I believe they should share fairly with the Allies in the supply of their economic and financial requirements for their economic construction. Exclusion from world markets would retard world recovery and load to fresh troubles. The Atlantic Charter speaks clearly of this. “Moreover, world peace can be permanently secured only on the basis of a world organisation more effective than the League of Nations, probably providing for Continental and other zonal arrangements. “Finally, the application of the Atlantic Charter to India, Africa and elsewhere must be carefully worked out on a basis of the racial, economic and cultural situation in the complex and varied societies." General Smuts added that South African armoured divisions will be employed anywhere on a second front or wherever their services are most advantageous, regard being paid to the importance of Africa in the Allied strategy and the possibiltiy of new fronts in its neighbourhood.