FORCE AND PEACE
OBSERVATIONS AT DEBATE. Speaking in the debate held in Masterton on Monday night, “that the League of Nations should enfdrce its decisions even at the risk of war,” Mr W. I. Wadhams of the W.E.A. team, supporting the affirmative, drew a parallel between the enforcement of the law by the police and of League decisions by force. The world moved forward, he said, by a process of trial and error and until they had faced a trial they never realised their errors. It was probable that a show of force was all that would be necessary but the instrument must be there to back up force. If there were no enforcement of law and each individual pleased himself the result would be chaos. War taught a lesson that could be learnt in no other way. Mr Wadhams asked how, except by force, totalitarian states were to be prevented from annexing, for example, New Zealand. Would his opponents relish the loss of liberty and .freedom of speech? When the League was backed by force and was prepared to. use it, then and only then would the world know peace.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 4
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