POST-WAR ORDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1943, Page 4

POST-WAR ORDER

DISCUSSED BV SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS i REGIONAL AND WORLD ORGANISATION. RESPONSIBILITIES OF GREAT POWERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 17. The outline of future world organisation advanced by Mr Churchill on March 25 was carried a step further today by Sir Stafford Cripps, addressing at Bristol the National Conference of Youth Organisers. Sir Stafford Cripps emphasised that before looking into the future the war must be won, for without victory there would be no future worth living. There would thus be no letting up till Asia, as well as Europe, was cleared of the aggressive domination of the Axis Powers. The first task would be to tackle the disorganisation and devastation wrought in Europe and Asia by the Axis. In Europe the future must be built upon a common European culture. When the war was over the four most powerful nations in the world would be the United States, Russia, China and the British Commonwealth of Nations, and upon them in association with the United Nations would fall the main task of rehabilitation. That task must be projected into a world organisation in which all the United Nations would play their part. Such a world organisation must have some international authority to back up decisions and punish those not complying. It must be able to delegate to smaller regional bodies, such, for instance, as a European Council, matters of purely regional concern. Within this larger organisation there would be a movement to knit together the smaller countries in federal units of some kind to preserve better their independence in face of their large and powerful neighbours. “Thus we will have the structure based as it should be on the maintenance of the individual culture of the various nations, but binding them together in ever-wider groups—the confederation of the regional council and the world authority. With this must be a supreme world policing authority basing its power upon consent of its constituents, and on recognised international morality and justice. “Into this picture will fit the four greater Powers, who will in the initial years of organisation have to make great contributions to maintain the stability of the structure and prevent a recurrence of aggressive action such as precipitated the present and the pastwar.” Sir Stafford Cripps added that they would have after the war an effective police force in the form of air power, a power that must be denied the Axis Powers till they could enter once again with safety into the community of nations.