CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 4

CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST.

The majof cause Of unewployment and all those social disorders which had led to dictatorships" and to competitive armaments had been ecoitotoxc nationalism, said Lord Lothian in an addresg to the Cohden Cluh at WeStminster.- It was the main reason for the declihe of the League Of Nations. It Was beoause the World was organised into 70 and Europe into 36 sovereign States, each of which was Open to arguments which seemed irresistihle, that they yieided to the ecOnoraid heresics from which the world was suifering. The first Was the need for self-sufdciCiicy in time of war; the second that the hoine markets xnugt be kept for the home producers; and, flnaily, the preposterous argument that the staiidard of living of the wOfking classes mttst he protected agaitist the competition of other nations with lower stahdards of living. Europe was to-day the centre of international discord. If Europe was at peace the rest of the world would not he afraid of war. Ettrope Was getting into a position when it would he asked to go to war to perpetuate the anarchy of Europe — to lay down a million lives in order that there might reiilain 26 eompartments eaCh armed to the teeth. TJnleae it was recognised that Safety alone lay in the principle underlying federation they were doonied. Peace could oixly he obtained by pooling sovereignty. Progress in that direction could bnly he inftde anxong democracies, for Fascism and , Couiinunism could not be federated with democracy.