CLAIMS OF PEACE.
Furthormore, I maintain that the claims of Peace are paramount; though this secms to be an out-of-date view in what used to be pacifist eirclcs. It is our duty to prolong peace, hour by hour, day by daj', for as long as we can. "We do not know what the future will bring, except that it will he quite different from anything we could predict. I have said in another context that it is a disadvantage of "the long run" that in the long run we are all dead. But I eould have said equally weli that it is a great advantage of "the short run" that in the short run we are still alive. Life and history are made up of short runs. If we are at peace in the short run, that is sometbing. The best we can do is to put off disaster, if only in the hope, which is not necessarily a remote one, that sometbing will tqrn up. While there is peace, there is peace. It is silly and presumptuous to say that war is inevitable; for no one can possibly know. The only conclusion which is certain is that we cannot avoid war by bringing it on.— J. M. Keynes.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 6
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