WHAT NEXT?

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8

WHAT NEXT?

"The renunciation of war is but one half of the outlawry of war—the first half, the harder half, the larger half,” says Dr Morrison, writing in ‘‘Foreign Affairs.” ‘‘l,t is the first half because, until war is renounced, all efforts to do anything with it by means of leagues or courts or arbitration treaties or any other agencies or devices are little less than futile; the war system, grows pari passu with the growth of all our schemes to prevent or regulate it, so long as it remains unchallenged within the legal system of international society. It is the harder half, 'because it requires not only a,complete revolution in national habits of thought, but a total reorientation of the peace movement itself, and the latter is no less difficult than the former. And renunciation is. the larger half because, Pi addition to its own inherent significance, it contains by implication the necessity and the logic of the other half. The other half of war’s outlawry is the establishment of an adequate mechanism of peace, a mechanism consistent with and appropriate to the supreme fact that war as an institution has been repudiated and abolished by international agreement. If war is once cast out as an available instrument for settling international disputes, there must be put in its place a recognised system of pacific procedure competent to adjudicatethese international disputes on a basis that precludes the re-introduction of j war.” I