Daladier’s Vision of a Federated Europe Well Received

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 2, 3 January 1940, Page 8

Daladier’s Vision of a Federated Europe Well Received

(British Official Wireleßß> (Received 2, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 1. Several newspapers to-day refer to the striking speech made by the French Prime Minister, M Daladier, last week, in which he spoke of the recent agreements on economic and financial co-operation letween France and Britain and leclared his view that “a new Europe should have a far wider irganisation than that which now sxists.” The French Prime Minister sent on to say that it would be accessary to multiply exchanges and perhaps to envisage federal ties between the various States of Europe. This insistence by M. Dalaaier on the | salue of Anglo-French solidarity for j the future of Europe is remarked upon by The Times, while the Manchester Guardian thinks he has sounded ino note of leadership for whicn the democracies have been looking for many years. “His firm tone for the present and hia bold views for the future show that the Western Governments have taken the initiative and have their own plans for a new Europe,” the Guardian continues. “The completeness with which Britain and France can achieve economic unity, and the liberality with which they can maintain trading relations with other States during the war, will largely decide the prospects of the new Europe.” The Daily Herald says that M. Daladier is “the first leading statesman to say what millions of ordinary men and women have been thinking Everybody with any common sense realises that the nations must relinquish some of their unrestricted national sovereignty if there is to be any hope of stable peace and progress.” The Times observes: “The Europe of 1939 is gone forever, and few will re- i gret it. Whatever is built out of the ruins will be a very different and, we must hope, finer structure. “In creating an international order capable of perpetuating peace,” adds The Times, “we must be prepared for far-reaching changes, and it may well be that the national sovereign State as Europe has known it for 400 years will consent to modifications hitherto regarded as impracticable. “It is right that, even while we •grapple with the stern ordeal before some minds at least should be concentrated on working out those problems that lie far ahead. The imme(diate task for 1940 is a bitter fight with unscrupulous, ruthless and formid,able adversary, but we can face it with ,‘higher courage and with a deeper of victory if our hearts are set on the ultimate achievement of a ljuster world.”