TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21159, 8 July 1940, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Who Won the Last War ? “I remember Mr Lloyd George being asked once who he thought had won the last war. He pondered for a moment, and then he said : ‘Certainly no nation won anything. The only people who won were the women. Because of their service the women today have won their full rights as citizens.’ I think he was right. And what are they going to win out of the suffering and sacrifices of this war ? I think I know what they would like to win—that is the ending of all war. They feel more strongly about war than men do. War, to man, has something heroic about it. They are called upon to lay down their own lives for a great cause. But women, in the main, are only called to lay down the lives of those they love best—a far more terrible and thankless task. But war is not going to be ended by yearning for it to end. It will only come from hard thinking and hard work, and imagination. The ending of war is a constitutional problem. The more you think about it. the more you will see that that is true. The State is the institution which ends war within its own boundaries and inter-State war will only end when we are able to establish the principle of the State in some new and wider form than has ever yet been successfully attempted.”—Thv Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington.