A NEW ORDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 7

A NEW ORDER

CONDITIONS OF PEACE IN EUROPE HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE. END OF AN EPOCH SEEN. (British OtTicial Wireless.) RUGBY, December 5. Concluding his speech in the House of Lords on war and peace aims, the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) said:—"lt is already being said, that a new order in Europe would only come from a surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights in order to clear the way for some more organic unions. 1 do not know that I should go quite so far as condemning all attempts at a new order, but I do agree that we shall only court disaster if we forget that no later plan will be completed which does not freely spring from the will of the peoples, which will alone give it vigour and life.” Lord Snell, preceding Lord Halifax, said: "It is advisable to think now about the kind of world we want to leave behind us. As I see the present situation we are at the end of an epoch. I believe capitalism not only to be dead but condemned, and nothing whatever can restore it in our time.” He suggested that a Ministry of Reconstruction ought now to be set up to make preparations for the time when peace again reigned. The Archbishop of Canterbury said it was not possible to contemplate without some shame the recurrence of war twice in the lifetime of a single generation, and he thought the reason might be that during the last war little thought was given to the terms of subsequent peace. He felt that the younger generation might not be able to put its whole effort into this war unless it knew that not merely freedom would result but that yet another generation would not be daunted by the shadow of war.