BRITAIN AND AMERICA AS TRUSTEES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 3, 19 January 1937, Page 6

BRITAIN AND AMERICA AS TRUSTEES

"If the British and American systems were to agree on a common sea policy there would he no world war, for tio State or group of States, however powerful, would dream of challenging, simultaneously, the gigatitic resources they control. This soltition is at present out of reaoh. Great Britain is still too entangled in the politics of EurOpe, the United States too wedded to isolationism, to make discussion profitable. Great Britain has to abandon the illusion. that she can keep the peace in an armed Europe, and the United States has to realise that the only lasting basis for her own peace is a control of the seas by the free peoples, which it is only possible for her to establish in assoeiation with the British Commonwealth. Within or between the great stabilised zones of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the American Monroe 'System, there is no serious risk of war; the units between them produce every kind of foodstuff, raw material and manufactured article, tropical and temperate. May not they be the fifst to stabilise curreneies and xelax those barriers to trade and movement whieh are the greatest eause of social nnrest, dictatorship and armament to-day, and so show the World the road to prosperity as well as to peace?/'— The Marquess ©£ Lothian.