POST-WAR AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1943, Page 3

POST-WAR AIMS

TASKS FACING ALLIED NATIONS AMERICAN IDEAS OUTLINED BY MR. CORDELL HULL FORCE NEEDED TO RESTRAIN AGGRESSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 12. In a nation-wide broadcast which follows closely upon Mr Churchill’s appeal for collaboration after the war, the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, outlined American postwar ideas, including the creation of an international instrument forcibly to prevent aggression and to further international co-operation. Mr Hull said that co-operation among the Allies had long since reached a stage where the forces of the various allies were serving side by side under a unified command. This type of co-operation had developed with invincible Britain, intrepid and resolute Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, valiant China and other allies. “We are glad,” he continued, ‘to render all possible aid to the Soviet Unions, whose heroic armies have earned everlasting renown, and it is our desire and settled policy that collaboration and co-operation between our two countries shall steadily increase during and following the war. We are also maintaining the closest ties of solidarity with all but one of the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Discussing post-war policies based on the most important tenets of the American national faith, Mr Hull declared: ‘Vigorous participation in efforts to establish a system of international relations and create the conditions in which war may be effectively banished is a fundamental feature of our foreign policy. In the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations’ declaration the Allies clearly expressed their recognition of the existence of an area of common interest. Out task, and the task of our associates, is to utilise this common interest in order to create an effective system of international co-operation for the maintenance of peace. CONDITIONS OF SECURITY. “As I read history and the temper of the American people, our nation intends to do its part jointly with the other peace-seeking nations in helping the post-war world to heal its wounds. I am also sure the Americans and each allied nation intends to do its part after victory in meeting the immense needs of the post-war period. Those needs will embrace the task of taking practical steps to create conditions in which there will be security for every nation.”

“If our nation and like-minded nations fail in this task the way will be open for international anarchy, for new destructive wars, and for unprecedented material and spiritual impoverishment of mankind. Indeed, post-wax - collaboration to maintain peace is scarcely less essential for selfpreservation than the present co-oper-ative effort to win the war. The nations standing for peace and security must now make up their minds to act together or there will be neither peace nor security. “This is abundantly clear: that the system of organised international cooperation for the maintenance of peace must be based on the willingness of the co-operating nations to use force if necessary to keep the peace. There must also be the certainty that adequate appropriate means are available and will be used for this purpose. Political differences between nations should be adjudicated in an international court, but aggressors must be restrained forcibly by the peaceful nations, and these nations must be willing to accept the responsibility for the task in accordance with their respective capacities.” RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS. Mr Hull then outlined the following “three fundamental propositions” for international co-operation after the war: 1. Each nation should be free to decide the form of its governmental or : ganisation as long as it conducts its affairs in such a way as not to menace the peace and security of other nations. 2. Each nation should be free to decide its form of internal economic and social organisation, but it should respect the rights of others and play the necessary part in a system of sound international economic relations. 3. Each nation should be willing to submit differences with other nations to peaceful settlement and should be prepared to carry out the other obligations devolving in an effective system of organised peace. “All this,” Mr Hull said, “calls for the creation of a system of international relations based on the rules of morality, law and justice. The form and functions of the international agencies of the future are being studied intensively by the American and other Governments and are being gradually made the subjects of consultation between the Governments.”