LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1943, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

ANGLO-AMERICAN POLICY. INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY ESSENTIAL. ‘•The main stream of Anglo-American policy and of the policy of all the Allies is towards a new-and stronger League of Nations,” said Mrs T. R. Barrer, president of the Masterton branch of the League of Nations’ Union, in an address to local branch members on the international situation. Mrs Barrer quoted the expressed views of Allied leaders upholding this policy. It had been indicated, she said, that the policy of the United States Government was, on its general lines, identical with that of the League of Nations. The first attempt at a League of Nations failed, not so much from any flaws in its covenant, as from the fact that the covenant was not implemented. It was the’failure to use the machinery effectively that landed the world in another war. The self-evident fact that emerged therefrom was that, without some effective international authority, the peace on which the progress of civilisation depended could never be secure. The institutions of the League were being maintained in existence and were carrying on all thoseactivities which the circumstances of the war and the financial situation of the League permitted. Any international authority must take account of the rich and varied experience of the League.