PEACE IS NOT EASY.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 5, 29 September 1937, Page 4

PEACE IS NOT EASY.

"It seems to me only too clear that in any of the controversies -vhere it became obvions that we were not prepared to nse force ye kave never SUcceeded," said Yiscount Cecil in the House of Lords. "... The idea that you can appeal to the sweet reasonableness of a country that is ah aggressor and say to that coufltry, 'This is What we beg ydu to do, but in no cirdumstances shall we try to enforce our vicw,' is otily to invite disasirr, "I regret the cofistant assertion that the only thing that this eoUntry cares about is tb be kept out of war. That is constantly being asserted by Ministfers and others. I think it is a most dangeroiis thing to say. In the first place, I think it is a direct fencouragement to disorderly Powers, if I may put it so, to become more and more aggressiVe and to treat our remonstrauces and the remonsfcrances of others with very seant respect. It is bound to have that eflcect, and also an even more important effect; that of increasing the danger of war. I ftm not a jingo, Heaveh knows. I loathe war With every fibre of my being. I believe that the noblest and the most truthful efforfc for British statesmafiship is to establish peace and to establish it on u permanent and firm foundation. But I am quite sure it Will Uot be 'established on that firm foundation if we think we cdfi get it withotii making any exertiofi and even without runnixig any risk. You caiinot ^et tliings that are really worth having by any procedure of that