ALLIED WAR AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 6

ALLIED WAR AIMS

FOUNDATIONS OF STABILITY IN EUROPE. What. then, are the Allies to aim at in fighting the war? asks the "Manchester Guardian." and it answers: — A Europe in which armed force will no longer be arbiter, whether it is used on land. in the air. or on the sea. This implies lhe creation of a league possessed nf an armed force greater titan that of any European Power. A Europe again in which some form of Federal Union will subordinate all the fierce rivalries that now threaten tn (ear us to pieces and enable each people to develop its own culture and raise the level of its common life, finding strength and help in its association with the rest of* Europe. To the creation of such a Europe the Allies would contribute not only by their leadership but by their own concessions, for it would obviously demand from them their consent to a radical reconstruction of the colonial system, as well as to large economic readjustments and the surrender of part of their national sovereignty. Such a Europe cannot be created at once. Its creation must be a gradual and complicated process. But if that is our aim all our policy must be guided and governed by its spirit and its needs. There is no place in it for a Power that seeks conquest and dominion.