WORLD ISSUES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 8

WORLD ISSUES

DISCUSSED BY LIBERAL LEADERS ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS NEEDED ONLY CHANCE OF SECURING PEACE DENUNCIATION OF GERMANY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. World tension was the subject of a broadcast to America by Mr D. Lloyd George, who, emphasising the storminess of the present ,era, declared that there was no disposition, during the relief from crisis, to examine the terms on which the affrighted democracies had escaped from the dictators. The first reaction to it was a demand for defences. A Two Power or Four Power pact would not ensure peace, but merely disembarrass the aggressor States of democratic interference, while the aggressors pursued their designs elsewhere. The only chance of world peace was an assembly of the great nations to discuss the best means of attaining it. Sir Archibald Sinclair, after referring to the fact that Germany was launching the most ferocious pogrom west of the Vistula since the Middle Ages, urged the redoublement of efforts to solve the refugee problem and to show Germany that the price of her friendship with other nations was to stop persecuting and robbing the Jews and then flinging them on the charity of her neighbours. Germany’s treatment of the Jews within her borders was her own affair, but when she drove them out she lifted the problem to an international plane. She must contribute towards a solution, at least to the extent of restoring their property. Moreover the Arabs must not be allowed to frighten Britain from the fulfilment of the pledges given to the Jews, of a home in Palestine. Britain could not hand over to Germany any primitive ,/Africans now enjoying impartial British rule. The real issue was whether we were prepared to defend the just, free and truthful basis of our civilisation against the principle of force, on which the dictatorship rested.