TEMPORARY ALLIANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1943, Page 3

TEMPORARY ALLIANCE

OF LEADING UNITED NATIONS AS STEP TOWARDS WORLD ORGANISATION. ADVOCATED BY SUMNER WELLES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copy right) NEW YORK, October 17. Mr Sumner Welles in his first speech since his resignation as Assistant Secretary of State, advocated a temporary alliance with Britain, Russia and China to keep the peace in the transition period while a permanent world organisation was being established. “Unless agreement is reached soon on basic principles any hope for a stable postwar world must be all but illusory,” said Mr Welles. He added that this executive council should be established for settling immediate problems both temporary and permanent. This organisation should include a regional organisation like the Pan-American group of republics for the maintenance of local regional peace. Mr Welles asserted that the new world order should be based on great moral principles—the freedoms of religion. speech and information and that no nation has the inherent unlimited right to govern subject peoples. He urged that the President and Congress boldly assume leadership and adopt a definite policy. “Surely it is time the nation was told our major objectives. Praising Mr Roosevelt he said that no American was more qualified to shape our foreign policy.