NATIONAL ISOLATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 6

NATIONAL ISOLATION.

" Theoretically a nation can isolate itself from tlie rest of the world. But, just as in the case of an individual who would lead a bermlt existence, and of a family or a community whieh attejnpts to segregate itself, an inexorable price must be paid, and in the end paid by individuals through a lowering of their material. moral and spiritual standards. " Ther§ must be a firm belief in tbe inviolability of the pledged word. International law is not enforceable in the sanie sense as domestic law. " The observance of the duties which it iraposes and the safeguarding of the rights which it confers rest primarily upon volunlarily accepted self-discipline on the part of the nationg which are parties to it, "Under modern conditions, no nation escapes the repercussions of a major armed conflict anywhere in the world. However far they may be rejnoved from the seat of actual fighting, all nations feel their morale weakened by the horror of war, and their well-being impaired by the processes of disruption and ruiu, which spread in ever-enlarging circles from Ihe territorics hcing laid wasU by war."^-Mr Cwdall Hulh U.fcJ. Secrelary of 8talc. I