OPPOSITION TO WAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 4

OPPOSITION TO WAR

"Gbvernments, practicaliy without exception,Tiave been extolling peace and proclaiming peace, but their carefully-planned and appallingly costly preprfrations for wars have gone- on apaee. On the other hand, there exists in practicaliy every land, and in some iands to a very large ahd influential exlent, a deep-seated popular sentiment against war. "The reason why this strong and widelydistributed popular sentiment eounts for so little in controlling puhlic poliey is that for the most part it contents itself with emotional out-givings-and outbursts. It is opposed to war; it will not eounlenanee war; it will take no part in war; it will permit no one to make economie gain out of war; but it is singularly hopeless and helpless when confronted with the task, first, of lessening and then removing the causes Qf war, and, second, of building up those public institutions of eo-operation and judicial proeess which are the only possible substitute for war. "If Governments could only be made to understand that the puhlic opinion of their several peoples is not only opposed to war, - but is deflnitely insiStent upon policies of soeial, eeonomic and politieal co-operation and of suhstituting judicial proeess for tbreat of force in the settlement of international differences, then progress would be made."-*D£f Nigholag : [ pmbia- U.nivexsity*