POST-WAR SECURITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1941, Page 6

POST-WAR SECURITY

ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS INDISPENSABLE DECLARATION BY AMERICAN MINISTER. WHY THE LEAGUE FAILED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) WASHINGTON. July 23. A post-war association o.L‘ nations- strong enough to guarantee disarmament and efpial economic opportunities was 11m ideal lor which peoples of goodwill should strive as the fouiidation of permanent peace, said the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, in an address. IJTce governments and peace-loving peoples should now be preparing, he said, for “the better day" that would come with the crushing defeat of those who were sacrificing mankind to their own lust for power and loot. Mr Welles contended that the League of Nations had failed in part because of the blind selfishness of men in the United States and elsewhere. The League failed chiefly because it was forced to operate as a means of maintaining the status quo. It was never able to operate, as Woodrow Wilson intended, as an elastic, impartial instrument bringing about peaceful and equitable adjustments between nations. “Some instrumentality must unquestionably be found to achieve such adjustments when law and order were restored to a disastrously shaken world," he said. "Security represents the end on which the hearts of men and women everywhere are set, whether it bo security from bombing, mass destruction, want, disease or starvation.”