MONUMENT TO LEAGUE
FAITH IN COLLABORATION
The words of M Joseph Avonol. .Secretary-General of the League of Nations, spoken at the opening of the League pavilion at the New York World's Fair, are more pertinent today than when uttered. “It is perhaps a bold thing, in this period of chaos and anguish through which the world is passing ... to set up here a monument to Hit' League of Nations." he said. “Yet it is not a rash thing to do. I ask the American people to look upon il as evidence not merely of confidence but of faith in peaceful collaboration among the nations. Without such collaboration civilisation cannot go on: and. ,‘natniS'J-Hg-.so, let us not permit ‘he ’joaguc to perish, even though it lamid ruin. TFq" 'raver the world /lion the greater the need for it. Zill bo upheld by our fail)) anti our; .Ark?’ ife 1
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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148MONUMENT TO LEAGUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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