INDIVIDUALS AND PEACE.
"Before you can hope for peace and goodwill between either men or nations you must have individual intereourse," writes Major S. E. Gr. Ponder in his hook, " Mediterranean Memories." The mairi contact between nations .to-day is by way of that dreadful fellow the politician. Until you are able to grasp a stranger's point of view, hear of his difficulties, sympathise with him, laugh with him, and live with him, you cannot becoine friends. This can only be done by personal contact, and the first step towards that is speech. Why in the name of all that is sane did not the nations at Geneva realise this in the beginning? A common. language of some kind should have been sought and made compulsory in all schools, and then, in time, a Frenchman, a German, an Italian, and a Briton would have been able to_talk togethCr, become friends."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 159, 23 July 1937, Page 4
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