AFTER THE WAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 6

AFTER THE WAR

AIMS DISCUSSED CHANGES NECESSARY OPINION IN BRITAIN LONDON, Nov. 7. “Absolute national sovereignty must be abandoned after the war,” states Mr. Harold Nicholson, M.P., the brilliant essayist and former diplomat, in “Why England is at War." a new volume in the Penguin series.

He urges that the entire air strength of all nations should be pooled and controlled by a reconstituted League of Nations.

The book indicts Herr Hitler, and points out that the cynical brutalities advocated in “Mein Kampf" have already been put into practice. Surprise is expressed at Herr Hitler's success, “as he is a proven traitor and coward.” Mr. Nichoison declares that Britain’s motives in going to war are selL preservation and the preservation of humanity.

“We are fighting against a civilisation which is lower than that which, through centuries of trial and error, we have been able to evolve.” he savs.

Mr. Nicholson praises the propertied classes. “They arc.” he states, “deliberately and wittingly prepared to sacrifice the whole of their possessions rather than allow Hitler an evil triumph. Seldom has a whole class committed suicide in so great a cause.”

He contends that Britain should declare her war aims as (1) the restoration of Poland and Czechoslovakia and an independent choice for Austria, and (2) an affirmation that England does not wish to ruin Germany, politically or financially.

Significance of Religious Values

The Very Rev. Philip Mieklem, Provost of Derby, and Vicar of All Saints, Derby, in a letter to The Times, in which he discusses the position “after the war," states that self-determining nationalism is an outworn anachronism.

“The war issue,” he says, “lies between an ever-expanding Hitlerian Germany and tiie free collaboration of peoples prepared to except a common contituted authority, freelyestablished political unity, the pooling of natural resources, and the organising of productive skill and energy with the object of raising (he standard of life.

“To further this political and economic end, religious values must again be given central significance and authority in the public and private life of Europe. “While the Churches have an allimportant part to play in vindicating religion, there rests, mainly upon authoritative laity, the responsibility for reintegrating into the life of Europe common acceptance of the Divine Will as the final rule in human action."