THE BETTER WAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 4

THE BETTER WAY

"It is not given to men to see far into the future, and it were folly for any nation, our own or any other, to close its eyes to possible dangers from whatever quarter they may arise. But it is not less folly for all nations to lose the chance of strengthening the forces of peace by the exaggeration of all the things that make for international suspicion and by failure to remember the words that always live in my mind, the words used by the late Lord Grey when he said that ' nothing so predisposes men to understand as the consciousness that they are understood.' "Well, so far as we art concerned, we mean what we say when we say that we shall be friends with all nations, and we believe that other nations sincerely desire to establish friendly relations with ourselves. It is therefore not with unmixed feelings that I read strong criticisms of the Government for what is at present, so it is alleged, their only partial preparedness to meet the sinister purposes that are aseribed by the critics to other Pow;ers. "I recognise, of course, the patriotio impulse that is at worh to promote the cause of national defence, but in my judgment thesc critics would be rendering better serviee to the safety of their eoun try if they could introduce more often into their writings or theispeeches something which might make a real eontribution to tln appeasement of international feeling and international anxiety." — , Viscpunt Halifax, m a recent speech in the House of Lords.