POST-WAR POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1942, Page 3

POST-WAR POLICY

AMERICAN PROPOSALS OUTLINED BY MR WELLES. CO-OPERATION TO CONTINUE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 31. Steps have been taken by the United States to obtain the support of the other United Nations in establishing a post-war system for meeting the problems of distribution of goods and purchasing power, according to the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, in a speech at a Memorial Day gathering at Arlington Cemetery. He declared: “The age of Imperialism is ended and this is a people’s war which must be followed by a people’s peace.” He outlined the following post-war policies:—First, individuals, groups orpeoples responsible for the war will receive swift punishment, but no element in any nation will be forced to atone vicariously for crimes for which it is not responsible; secondly, the victorious nations will undertake the disarmament of all nations which may threaten aggression outside their frontiers; thirdly, the United Nations will undertake the maintenance of an international police power after the war till the establishment of that permanent system of general security promised by the Atlantic Charter; fourthly, a world organisation, with the United Nations as its base, will determine the final terms of a just honest and durable peace after the immediate postwar economic and social adjustments are made; fifthly, the United States alone will have the strength and resources to lead the way to a world order wherein there will be freedom from want; sixthly, an inter-American system of co-operation will be maintained.”