THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

In yesterday’s daily papers a report appealed stating that the Auckland Presbytery had adopted a resolution for the formation of branches of a League of Nations Union, and that the constitution of such branches had been laid down. Leaders of religion, a prominent English .divine said, had not been as forward as statesmen,, journalists, or the prominent members of Esperantist groups in forwarding the League of Nations movement or of inculcating its spirit. However that may be, during the last two years they have awakened somewhat, and it-'is to be hoped that the influence of the churches will become a more vital force in the future than it has been m the past, in a practical, and hot merely an academic way. The League of Nations’ will not prevent war in the present century, but it eventually will become the tribunal before which all international disputes will be settled by "arbitration. In the centuries to come there will doubtless he international land and sea police forces keeping order on the. sea and in all countries, just as national navies and pobce forces now do in individual territories. It is a far-away ideal,, but as each generation must live more for the future than for the present, it is every person’s duty to do, something towards the attainment of the goal of universal peace.