WORLD COMMUNITY
MAKING A BETTER PEACE. Asked to discuss the conditions of a better peace. Dr Walter W. Van Kirk, international jurist and director of the American National Peace Conference, called upon responsible world statesmen to declare that it was their purpose after the present war to establish a genuine world community. not a League of Victors to enslave the vanquished. "Unless the terms of peace are clearly outlined in advance of widespread hostilities." he said, "the war will be followed in all likelihood by another Versailles Treaty. This would be a catastrophe even greater than the war itself. There must not again be a peace of vindictiveness. Let his fact be proclaimed now before it too late. The maintenance of the nf system of power politics is not 'he life of a single soldier.” Dr k also called upon the United take its place in aiding the \of a better world order, t it is bound, economically v, to the nations now / all other nations, thus p' i a vital stake in the "ollow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1939, Page 7
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175WORLD COMMUNITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1939, Page 7
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