TOWARDS WORLD PEACE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 5

TOWARDS WORLD PEACE

R. A. EDEN’S APPEAL. WE CAN BE STUBBORN Peace Must Be Two-handed And A Work Of Economics Press Association—Copyright. Rugby, Jan. 13. In a jspecch at a. dinn/er given by the Foreign Press Association in London to-day the Foreign Mr. R. a. Eden, reh ferred to Herr Hitler’s statement at Berlin at a reception to the Diplomatic Corps and declared that the British Government warmly reciprocated th e sentbments the German Chancellor expressed regarding understanding and reconciliation among the nations. “Surely the world is not so bankrupt that it can find no way of giving practical force to that which it seems is the common aim of us all,” said Mr. Eden. “Let There Be No Mistake/' “Tbe British nation has no desire to spend money upon armaments. Yet let there be no mistake, in She existing conditions they can, and •* need be will, show as stubborn determination as any other nation in reequipment, which they regard as to their national safety, but that *8 not the road we wish to travel. We definitely prefer butter to guns and are prepared to do our best by economic cooperation and by working for European appeasement to secure that others have butter, too, On a world which has no need of guns.’’ Outcome of Civil War. “I know some believe that as the outcome of civil war Spain inevitably must have a Government either Fascist or Communist. That is not our belief. ,On the contrary we believe that, neither of those forms of Government being indigenous to Spain, neither is likely to endure( Spain will in time evolve her own Spanish form of Government. The* less the foreigner interferes the • shorter the time will Be.”

“Democracy is a slow and steady growth to which men of all sorts and conditions throughout many generations have made their contributions,” said Mr. Eden. “We are told that it is not heroic and that Europe is now entering on a heroic agQ. By all means let us have heroism, but let us regard Europe as a laud for heroes to live in, not merely to die in. Let us not confuse heroism and heroics. Let us seek, that quieter heroism which is none the loss real because it can see qualities of heroism and willingness for selfsacrifice in the people of every race and creed, and which regards co-op-eration with all races and creeds as essential to the general wellbeing.” Th© Times in a Ipader, after summarising. Mr. Eden’s speech, declares: “Britain, heartily join tii's welcome to Herr Hitler’s New Year declaration and will pcho Mr. EdSn’s and Herr Hitler’s emphasis pn Vie truth that the work of peace must be two-handed and »a labour Pf economics as much as of policies.’’