WHEN TO FIGHT.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 4

WHEN TO FIGHT.

Lord Davies essayefi %'liard taek at the City -Temple, London, wheu he sought to persuade a body of Free Church ministers and laity that the establishn^ent of an international policing force, coupled with a oourt of ejjuity, would be a further step along the federal path to peace. His hearers were obviously disinclined to support any appeal to arnis, He argued, however, that a poljce force for nations was as necessary and inevitable for securing compliance with law as was a constahle behjnd the civil judge. The thought of the Free Chupches, he said, revolved around the idea of the i;ight use of forqe, to which they might take one of three attitudes : the abolitionist, the duellist, and the utilisation for police purposes. To abolish force under existihg conditions, he suggested, was futile. The war test of the lesouice and strengtk of two sides^had proved unsatisfactory. Wliy not try a tribunal of equity, will; an international force hehind it I This was a moral and non-violent procedure for securing peace tliat he would, as a Ffit Chiurohnuw hinnalf,, oommend to Free Church coneidvration. k , s .