NEW WORLD ORDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1941, Page 6

NEW WORLD ORDER

WHAT WE SEEK TODAY. “Much is being said about a new world order to take the place of the old world order when the war is at an end,” said the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr Mackenzie King, in a speech at the Mansion House, London. “If that new order is not already on its way before the war is over, we may look for it in vain. A new world order cannot be worked out at some given moment and reduced to writing at a conference table. It is not a matter of parchments and of seals. That was one of the mistaken beliefs at the end of the last war. A new world order to be worthy of the name is something that is born, not made. It is something that lives and breathes; something that needs to be developed in the minds and the hearts of men; something that touches the human soul. Tt expresses itself in goodwill and in mutual aid. It is the application, in all human relations, of the principle of helpfulness and of service. It is based not on fear, on greed and on hate, but on mutual trust and the noblest qualities of the human heart and mind. It seeks neither to divide nor to destroy. Its aim is brotherhood, its method co-opera-tion. While the old order is destroying itself, this new relationship of men and nations has already begun its slow but sure evolution. It found expression when Britain determined to put an end to aggression in Europe; when other nations of the British Commonwealth took their place at the [side of Britain, and when the United ■ States resolved to lend its powerful aid (to the nations which are fighting for I freedom. It has found its latest ex- | pression in the Atlantic Charter. On I (such a foundation of unity of pur-1 pose and effort, all free peoples may l well hope to build an enduring new | world order. A new heaven and a new earth—are not these, in very truth, what we seek today? A heaven to which men and women and little children no longer will look in fear, but where they may gaze again in silent worship and in thankfulness for the benediction of the sun and the rain; an earth no longer scarred by warfare and torn by ’greed, but where the lowly and the humble of all races may work in ways of pleasantness and walk in paths of peace.”