WORLD COUNCIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4

WORLD COUNCIL

ADVOCATED BY MR NASH TO CONTROL ALLIED STRATEGY REGARDED AS IMMEDIATE NECESSITY. ENGLISH-SPEAKING POWERS WITH RUSSIA & CHINA. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. The immediate establishment of a world war council, comprising Britain, America, Russia and China and the delegation of existing Allied war organisations to a secondary status, was urged by Mr W. Nash (New Zealand Minister in Washington) in an interview with the Associated Press. “There is urgency for the formation of this council, and if possible I should like to see it established tomorrow,” Mr Nash said. “I have not yet placed the idea before the British War Cabinet, but last March, which was the month after my arrival in America, I told the New Zealand War Cabinet that such a council was the only body which could get us through this conflict. The present organisation of the Allied war effort has been most useful and has done its best in the circumstances, but wider counsels are now needed. I can see no reason why Russia should not join such a council, even though she is not fighting Japan. We are, after all, fighting the same powers, and in such a world conflict, one of the main aims of which is the establishment of world order, the principal Powers concerned should co-operate and consolidate to make their blows most effective, wherever they are made. My opinion is that Japan will, on the first opportunity favourable to her, go for Russia and ignore all treaties. Alongside the world war council should be a reconstruction development council, representative of the same four Powers, the function of which would be to deal with post-war problems. In addition there should be regional councils, embracing the other United Nations, dealing with specific problems of war organisation in prescribed areas. The world war council, however, should deal with major war strategy.”