NEED FOR GOODWILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 205, 31 August 1943, Page 4

NEED FOR GOODWILL

STRESSED BY MRS. ROOSEVELT (P.A.) Wellington, Aug. .30. The need for goodwill, co-operation and readiness to accept sacrifices if n lasting peace were to be achieved at the. conclusion of the present war was stressed by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt when addressing a crowded women’s meeting in Wellington last night. New Zealand, like the United States, she said, wanted a peaceful world—not peaceful because of the fear of some powerful tyrant, but peaceful because everyone had enough food, shelter and clothes, and work which paid a decent living wage. “At the end of the last war. she said, “we thought we could mind our own business and have intercourse with the rest of the world on *y through trade. For too long we blinded ourselves. Before long we reaped the bitter harvest of the depression. This time I do not think we should rely wholly on the work that our leaders will do at the peace table. We must learn the lesson that if democracy is to prove itself the voice of the people must be more articulate. Every person must take full responsibility in making the leaders conscious of the wishes of the people and seeing that on the foundations of peace is erected a progressive economic and political building designed to preserve peace.” The tide of war had changed. We knew now that victory in Europe and in the Pacific was ours, said Mrs. Roosevelt. It might cost many more young lives, many women would weep, but in the end the democracies would triumph. We would have another chance to try to do better than before. Now was the time to start nlanning for the future. We would have to see that all the nations of the world that had never had a chance before were a chance. For the first time cifzens of all nations would have to become concerned about what happened to others all over the earth. For a time while some nations recuperated sacrifices would be necessary, but just as we accepted the sacrifices of war because liberty must be preserved at all costs, so we would accept the challenge that came to us in the future. “Goodwill to all men is essential if cur children and our grandchildren are not to suffer the bitter experiences we have suffered,” said Mrs. Roosevelt. “The choice is co-operation and goodwill or extinction In a world in which scientists will soon know not [only how to give greater power for | good but also power to exterminate • the whole human race.” Speaking of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. I Churchill. Mrs. Rooseveß said: “I know they would both say that peace 'must be won not by th? leaders alone but by the combined effort of the