PEACE AND WAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 4

PEACE AND WAR

"A historian may go so far as to assferfc that the people whp ecgaged in that gigantic civil struggle called the Great War did sq in the hope and belief that when the trials and sacrifiees were over justiee would, reign over the world" (says Professor R. B. Mowat) - " If anybody were to cast up the profits and lossps for his State aceruing from centuries of. the pursuit of selfish State-interest, he would be surprised at the mea'gre results ; and he would be shoeked when his analysis showed him the World War as an item in the reckoning. We are still suffering from the World War. The account is not yet closed, and cannot be elosed until all Governments see their duty in supporting the League of Nations, which was designed for the liquidation of the World War and of all war. Only through League methods can the account of the World War be closed." "Many people are going under the umbrella of pacifism," said Lord Allen of Hurtwood, "who are not pacifists at all, but because they are war-weary, and want to avoid getting entangled in war, and can see no other way. That is fatal, but the combination of the negative pacifist and of the positive pacifist would be so startling as to unlock the d'oor to peace in the world. I hate the sanctimonious quality of some of us pacifists who are aetually retreating into intellectual security. That is one of the tragio situations in the peace movement at the mornent,^ i