CONDITIONS OF PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 7

CONDITIONS OF PEACE

9 POWER BEHIND JUST LAW. “The plain truth is that peace and order always depend not on disarming police, but on there being an overwhelming power behind just law. The only place where that power can be found behind the laws of the liberal and democratic world is the United States and Great Britain, supported by the Dominions and some other free nations.” said the ,late Lord Lothian in his last speech in America. . “The only nucleus round which a stable, peaceful, democratic world can be built after this war is if the United States and Great Britain possess between them more aeroplanes, ships of war and key positions cf world power’than any possible totalitarian rival. Then, and then only .will political and industrial freedom be secure and will it be possible for a free economic system to prevail against the economics of totalitarianism. If we are to set the world going again, not only must we have strength, but we must not adopt the fatal policies we al! pursued after the last war—the establishment of prohibitive tariffs, trying to collect fantastic reparations and war debts through those tariffs, then hoping to dodge the inevitable consequences of these follies by a policy of reckless lending. Markets and employment for all should be the main purpose of our post-war economic policy.”