WAR TERRORS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1932, Page 8

WAR TERRORS

ARCHBISHOP’S PLEA. ' MASTERTON,-July 13. It an impressive ! plea for trie suppoit *of ‘ movements which seek world peace, his Grace Archbishop O’Shea, 1 ' when speaking at Masterton on Sundae under the -auspices of the League' of Nations Union, said that it was generally understood that should another war break out it would be far . more horrible and destructive than- any . previous one. During the twelve years since the Great War man had so greatly improved hie death-dealing machinery that the very thought of the horrors and abominations of another war staggered the imagination. Unfortunately man’s ideals had not kept pace with his mechanical genius. The coloured races, said his Grace,- - wouldplay a great part in the next war. During the last war they had fought side by side~with the Allies. This, to many people, • had seemed a great mistake;.'as 'it had done away with the coloured races)’- 'sefisb 1 of > inferiority. The complete domination of the. coloured races by the white' had been iri large measure due to' the invention of explosives. But would the domination last - when ' the coloured people Larnt to use explosives? Women, too, Would ‘have “their place in future wars. The' French' 1 Government, he believed," : was Completely organised for another war in -which women would take their'place, and there would be.no non-combatants. • »"• v>'-i ••>

1 Passing on to the consequences ’ot future' Warfare,’the Archbishop said that another war would go close -to destroying , civilisation. One of ~ the things’the last war did 'was to, give finance a' stranglehold on the world. ' Another war,lie : considered, would make the world bankrupt. We would bb absolute slaves of the international “hanks, would lose -all our liberty, - and ; have our /civilisation;, destroyed. Another war would' so weaken the white races that the door would be left, open for blacks who would, as vdith the decline of Rome, the last push to'our tottering civilisation, It was)/ better* to face tlie facts and nh’fc wait until Wav threatened, h(i, ? said going”oil to speak of the 'Work.jiff, tbc League of Nations. * ‘ ! ' ,‘J At tlie conclusion of Archbishop O’Shea’s . address, the foil mi rig resolution was carried: ' ‘That ti.> > lmetirlg heartily -approve? of the Hoover disarmament proposals rod urges the New Zealand Government to give OX7, phession of the" weight of publl.: opinion in this matter.”