FORCE NECESSARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 95, 22 April 1944, Page 5

FORCE NECESSARY

KEEPING THE PEACE TREATIES, COVENANTS AND PACTS MUST BE UPHELD VIEWS OF VISCOUNT HALIFAX. I By Telegraph—Prose Asso iatlon—Copyright; Recd. 10 p.m. New York, April 21. “Whatever arrangement is made for international order, we must not forget that, unless it has behind it force sufficient and ready to prevent violation, sooner or later a Hitler, a Tojo, or a Mussolini will rise to challenge it.” said the British Ambassador in Washington, Viscdunt Halifax, speaking to the Convocation of Michigan University. “We are filled with good intentions about building security and peace. In 1919 our intentions were not less good. It is clear that these good intentions are not enough. We signed the Covenant of the League of Nations and also the Kellogg Pact, but

the Covenant did not insure peace. The Kellogg Pact did not outlaw war. “The personal demands whicn peace will make will be different from the demands war is making, but they will be just as great, just as necessary. Treaties, pacts and covenants are necessary, but, unless we are ready, in a last resort, to see to it they mean what they say, they are a dangerous illusion.”