WAR AIMS
FOUR PRINCIPLES OF PEACE. These, says the "Economist," are the four principals of peace:—Democracy, an International Order, Restitution and Generosity. Their translation into precise details is a matter which cannot now bo undertaken. But there arc certain points to which it is essential that we should all now commit ourselves as publicly as we can. while our visions are still unclouded. There must be no annexations of German territory and no indemnities. There must be disarmament, but no expectation that Germany will remain disarmed while other nations are armed. There must be a genuine sharing of colonial benefits and responsibilities through the widest, extension of the mandatory principle. There must be a new League of Nations, with the hesitations and half-commitments of the old removed. There must be an end of the more senseless forms of economic nationalism. In the madness and the agony that is to come, we must cling fast to those principles. Only so can we bo quite sure that, in defending democracy, we shall not betray it. and that the freedom for which we light is that freedom for all men on which alone permanent peace can bo built.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1939, Page 6
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195WAR AIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1939, Page 6
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