LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1938, Page 4

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SUCCESS OF HUMANITARIAN WORK. GREAT NEED FOR CO-OPERATION Some observations of interest concerning the League of Nations and the need for real co-operation were made by Mrs T. R. Barrer at a debate arranged by the Mastferton branch of the League of Nations Union last night; The concluding evening of the session was a co-operative effort, said Mrs Barrer. Co-operation required practice and it was necessary to begin individually and in small ways, The great disappointment in the League of Nations had been caused by the fact that the world had expected that it was only necessary to set up the machinery of the greatest co-operative movement ever conceived for it to be able to function immediately, fully and perfectly. In its humanitarian work it had met with marvellous success, of which the recently published report on the traffic in women and children was a typical example. It was when co-operation as a remedy for wars was sought that the magnitude of its task became apparent. But co-operation, like charity, must begin at home, said Mrs Barrer. The only really successful government was the one that sought not domination but co-operation with every section of the governed, and internationally a policy of co-operation in place of self-contained nationalism was the only hope of peace. But the world w'as made up of individuals, and as individuals it was necessary to put into practice every opportunity of co-operation. There was too much overlapping and too little co-opera-tion, for instance, between individual societies even in such a small town as Masterton.