PEACE WITH JUSTICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 7

PEACE WITH JUSTICE

AVOIDANCE OF THE ERRORS OF VERSAILLES. VIEWS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. "The most radical fault of the Treat' of Versailles was that it was imposed and not negotiated." said the Archbishop of York. Dr. Temple, in ; broadcast talk that was later re-broad-cast in translation to Germany. "Thi may have been true of treaties which the Germans themselves have made but, nevertheless, let us as Christians determine at all costs to avoid any repetition of a procedure by which it is hardly possible to create a general sense that justice has been done. In other words, let us determine and declare that when the fighting stops, the terms of peace shall be drawn up in ; true Congress of Nations, in whicl Germany, freed from the Nazi tyrants shall take her place among the rest but in which also the rights of Czechs and Poles shall have a first claim to consideration. If there are matters on which no agreement can be reached, let these be referred to a Court of Equity formed from neutral nations which are neither beneficiaries nor sufferers by the Peace of Versailles. Nothing, surely, could so clearly establish the disinterestedness of our aims than such a declaration. Nothing surely, could give to the peoples of Poland. Czcchoslavakia and Germany, so clear an assurance that they will receive justice so far as the tangle of facts bequeathed to us by history permits it and the wisdom of men can secure it. This frees us from the dreadful responsibility, and indeed the indefensible arrogance, of ourselves attempting to decide what is just and imposing it. on others."