CONGRESS OF NATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 4

CONGRESS OF NATIONS

FAVOURED BY GENERAL U; S. GRANT. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR VICTOR. Writing from Birmingham, England, to the “Christian Science Monitor,” a correspondent, Mr T. Ivan Lardge, recalled that General Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded the Union forces in the American Civil War and later became President of the United States, favoured an international congress of nations. Mr'Lardge quoted an extract from a book entitled “Around the World with Grant,” by John .Russell Young, which was published in 1880. In an address he gave in Birmingham during his tour of Britain, General Grant said: “Though I have followed a military life the better part of my years, there never was a day of my life when I was not in favour of peace on any terms that were honourable. It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more-bat-tles than any other General on the other side of the Atlantic; but there never was a time during my command when I would not have gladly chosen some settlement by reason rather than by the sword; and nothing would afford me greater happiness than to know, as I believe will be the case, that, at some future day, the nations of the earth will agree upon some sort of congress which will take cognisance of international questions of difficulty, and whose decisions will be as binding as the decision of our Supreme Court is binding on us.”