FRUSTRATED NATIONS.
"As a record of sheer frustration, what chapter in history compares with that which the nations have written for themselves since the war?" asks Mr Lionel Curtis, in his book, "Civitas Dei." "They have seen the horrors inseparable from war in a mechanised age and had sought to end them by virtue of compacts between sovereign and national states. The fact must be faced that to-day the attempt has failed. The world has almost ceased to believe that written compacts have any binding efEect on the national states that sign them. Nor is this true of dictators only, who openly flaunt their belief that nothing counts in human affairs but naked force and national interest; for two ancient empires, the one in Asia, the other in Africa, have been left to their fate at the hands of the aggressors by all the nations who signed the Covenant and entered the League. ^ Ihe _ jLocarna Treatiea a&d Jjhg Kellogg. ^act are a dead letle^ — -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 4
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