CO-OPERATION IN AND AFTER WAR

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 8

CO-OPERATION IN AND AFTER WAR

Task Of United Nations

“The task of the United Nations daily becomes more exacting.” *aid Mr. C. 11. Weston, ICC., president of the British American Co-operation Movement, when moving the adoption of the annual report at the general meeting of the movement in Wellington last night. “It is a task which will require every ounce of effort and every ounce of co-operation. The task of two.nations is much lighter when the two nations are well-disposed toward one another. “The fortunes of war have brought the forces of the United States to our shores to fight, and this has had the effect of giving us something to do. It has been a pleasure to meet the men, and it lias been a thrill to know they have done so well in- the Solomons,” Mr. Weston added. The seconder,, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, stressed the value of the work done by the women of the movement in visiting the American sick in hospital. “What we have done, however, is but a grain of sand on the seashore compared to what we have to do,” he declared. "In the aftermath of this war it seems it will take an almost superhuman effort to clear away the mess. There is no reason why we, though not within sound of the battle, should not take a big part in the fashioning of the world.after the war. “You cannot have a great storm without a great swell' afterward. All the United Nations are pledged to build a new world on the basis of the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms. This is going to mean that the people of the United Nations have got to rise to spiritual heights never, before seen. “There, will be hundreds of thousands of -, people in Europe who 1 will wish to shake the dust of Europe from their feet,” added Mr. Hunt. “In the past we Out here have not fully opened our gates to our own people, but we shall have to act differently after the war. It will call for sacrifice, possibly for a reduced standard of living.” ' ''