STABILITY & PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 4

STABILITY & PEACE

RESOLUTION BEFORE U.S.A. SENATE PROPOSING POST-WAR COLLABORATION. NEED OF CLEAR-CUT LEAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 16. Formally introducing in the Senate a resolution committing Congress to international collaboration after the war, Senator Ball said attempts to maintain peace through a balance of power, diplomacy, imperialism, pacts and treaties had all failed. Speaking for the four sponsors of the resolution, Senator Ball declared: “It is our conviction, which we believe is shared by an overwhelming majority of the American people and members of the Senate, that an organisation of peaceloving nations, with authority and power to halt any future attempts at military aggression, offers the best hope of maintaining peace and stability in the world after the war.” The League of Nations, he continued, had failed largely because the United Statqs was not a full partner in that effort to achieve lasting peace. He pointed out that uncertainty as to the post-war policies of Russia, China and Britain seemed to arise directly from the fact that no one knew what the attitude of the United States would be. He believed the United States would prefer to participate in an organisation of nations dedicated to justice, democracy and fair treatment. “The only way to ascertain whether the Allies will join us ip a collective effort,” he said, “is to ask them. We cannot propose nor ask effectively until the Senate has indicated its position. He proposed that the Senate should define, in clear-cut terms, the foreign policy it deemed would best serve the nation and promote, stability and peace.