ENFORCING THE PEACE COVENANT.
"Tthink we are right in saying that there shall he a foree behind the Coveuant of Peace, and that we helievq that the true way is to find security, pot in national armamentg, hut in the .colleetive force at the serviee of the conscience of th§ world. I see very curipus headlines in papers. One that I gaw the pther day was : 'Conciliation or Sanctions?' The 1 eifcher or' fallaey is one of the chipf pauses of human error, "When a man says 'either of,' the average human being does not ugually stop to agk hipi§elf if thSre ig no third alternative, and the answer to 'Conciljation or Sanctions?' is hoth. No one, I suppose, wants to renoupce conciliatibn. Every believer in the League of Nations desires to refer all questions to the arbitration of reason and law, and to go on discussing them up to the last minutes of the eleventh hour. But we go on to say, at least, I think we do, that we mugt renxove the temptatipn tp resort ' to the bruta! dgpision of war hy having a qollegtivp force go formidahle, so certain in its action, that ev§n a madman would hpsitate , tft.-ohallenste st Pjiul'it /"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 4
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204ENFORCING THE PEACE COVENANT. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 4
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