UNECONOMIC FRONTIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6

UNECONOMIC FRONTIERS

NEW WORLD ORDER WANTED. “No one wants to begin to describe where he would like to draw the frontiers between one country and another. or to say what kind of federa- ■ tion is to bo set up," said lire ArchI bishop of York, Dr. Temple, in ad- | dressing the York Rotary Club. "But it is recognised by all that we cannot go back to the world as it was when war broke out. because the world before the war was responsible for the war. The war gives us the opportunity’ to take stock to see that we are not starting things down the road which confronts us with the two desperate choices of Communism and Fascism. Let us leave out of consideration political frontiers and consider Europe geographically in the strict sense of that word, including geology, and consider what are the units of territory which ought to be worked together to produce the best economic results. We find that in nearly every case these | overlap frontiers. One very obvious j case is that of North-east France, Wes- ; tern Belgium and the Ruhr, which uni doubtedly ought to be worked in a ; single economic administration, howj ever difficult the political situation. Suppose that was not going by means | of some sort of international syndiI cate which would show there is a great advantage to the well-being of the i world through ignoring political frontiers, we shall then have got a long way from that intense nationalism which comes from economic factors. We have had a long experience of high tariff walls and the exclusion of goods when their admission would be advantageous. and that lias led people into , this deliberate preference against other . people and lias enabled them to de- ■ velop an intense national conscious- , ness, which, is a perilous situation. Our : aim in the peace must be. primarily to ( make the resources of the world avail- / able to all." i