WORLD PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 145, 19 June 1944, Page 3

WORLD PEACE

POST-WAR SECURITY PLANS BEING DEVELOPED SET-UP DESCRIBED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Washington, June 15. “The maintenance of peace and security must be the joint task of all peace-loving nations. We have, therefore, sought to develop plans for an international organisation, comprising all such nations. The purpose of the organisation would be to maintain peace and security, and assist in the creation, through international cooperation, of those conditions of stability and well-being necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations.” ' This statement was made by President Roosevelt regarding post-war international peace organisation. He said he had held many conferences with officials of the State Department in the last 18 months. All the plans and suggestions of groups, organisations and individuals had been carefully considered. Mr. Roosevelt emphasised the entirely non-partisan nature of the consultation and said all aspects had been debated in a co-operative spirit. He said: “It is our thought that the organisation would be a fully representative body, w?th broad responsibilities for promoting and cilitating international co-operation, through such agencies as may be found necessary to consider, and deal with, problems of world relations. It is our further thought that the organisation would provide for a council, elected annually by a fully representative body of all the nations, which include the four major nations and a suitable number of other nations. The council would concern itself with the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and with the prevention of threats or breaches of peace. There would also be an international court of justice to deal primarily with justifiable disputes. “We are not thinking of a superstate, with its own police force and other paraphernalia of co-ercive power. We ar ft seeking an effective agreement, and arrangements through which the nations would maintain, according to their, capacities, adequate forces to meet the needs of preventing war and of making impossible deliberate preparation for war, and to have such forces available for joint action when necessary. “AH this, of course, will become pG?. r -;l?_e once our present enemies are defeated, and effective arrangements are made to prevent them from making war again. Beyond that, hope of a peaceful and advancing world will rest upon the willingness and ability of peace-loving nations, large and small, tearing a responsibility, commensurate with their individual capacities, to work, together for the maintenance of peace and security.”'