FORM OF CO-OPERATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 4

FORM OF CO-OPERATION.

"It is not the idea te suggest aa offensive and defensive alliance pf the old type," Sir Henry goes on, "but rather that these two nations, on ■ the one great aspect of world peace, should express their readiness together to resist unjust aggression which threatena that peac;^ It is freely conceded that our civilisation cannot stand another blow such as that pf the war pf 1914-1918; and it is equally elear that uo spch dreadful shock weuld have been administered if, in July, 1914, the British Empire and the United States together had firmly made a declaration that they would opppse wrpngful aggression, "A world war hits all natipns--~belligerent or neutral — sooner or later; and even if a eountry can keep out, it cannot escape the inevitable consequences. The United States to-day are well aware, from painful internal experience, that the aftermatb of war oan be almost as disastrous (in ecpnomic effeet) as war itsejf. The combination now proposed appears tp be suggested in Sir Samuel Hoare 's speeeh ou Oetober 13 last^ in whieh he indicated that no ainglp nation can gimrautee world peaee; and the unexpressed idea, no doubt, was present in his mind— r that Britain and America together eould aeeomplish this."