THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1925, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Thk Saving ok Eunorn. •‘The immediate responsibility for exploring what is possible for initiating and giving the tone to new European policy, rests rather with the Allies, who were victors than with Germany. It is for these to make the new start in the hotter way and to give Germany her chance of joining in it. The lesson of European history is so plain. It is that no enduring security can he found in competing armaments and in separate alliances; there is no security for • any Power unless it he a security for which its neighbors have an equal share. All this, it may he objected, is so obvious as to lie commonplace—something of which nations must nil have been aware for many generations, though they have not acted on it. The fact that, though possessing this knowledge. they have not hitherto acted upon it. is represented as proof that they cannot and will never do so. We nro therefore invited to discard such reflections as are made in this chapter as being counsels of perfection, which could he of no use in practical politics.” —Viscount Grey of Fnllodon, in Twenty-five Years, 1992-191(1.”