INTERNATIONAL LAWLESSNESS
" We are not among those who think that further words against international lawlessness and humanity are vain. Mr. Roosevelt said: 'Surely the 90 per cent. who want to live in peace under law and in accordance with moral standards that have received almost universal acceptance through. the centuries, can and must find some way to make their will prevail.' We agree with that. If the world is to accept the belief that its moral standards and its hope for justice under law cannot be made effective in the international field, then it faces something worse than Avar. The purposes of peace must be purer than those that have misused the League of Nations as a club to maintain the status quo. They must be more Christian than the self-righteous imperialism which teaches distressed peoples that there is no hope for redress except by force of arms. They must have behind them a willingness to make some sacrifices for peace. People must care enough for law and for moral standards to face the threat o£ war. There is only contjnued frustration and futility in pious protests which merely relieve the feelings. Yet the present situation has still a place for words." — " Christian Science Monitor."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 68, 13 December 1937, Page 6
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