Wairarapa Times-Age WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943. FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD ORDER.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1943, Page 2

Wairarapa Times-Age WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943. FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD ORDER.

AS they are set. out in the official report issued simultaneously in London, Washington. and Moscow, the results of the Three-Power Conference in the Russian capital, exceed, expectations and are full of promise for the future of humanity, lhe essence of the decisions reached is that the three Powers represented, together with China, pledge themselves to united action, not only in winning the war 1 as speedily as possible, but in maintaining and safeguarding peace when it has been attained. In the form in which they are presented, the decisions represent as complete and binding pledges as could well, be devised of common and united, action in prosecuting the war, “in all. matters pertaining to the surrender and disarmament of the enemy,” and in establishing a better world order. . It is particularly commendable that provision has been made against the dangers of delay in building U P a bioadbased international organisation to safeguard peace.- lhe thiee Powers explicitly recognise the necessity of building . up at the. earliest possible date a general international organisation of all peace-loving States “for the maintenance of international peace and security,” but tlmy guarantee, in. effect, that theii own united organisation will bridge any gap-between the. end of the war and the creation of a .general international organisation. Whether the Moscow decisions are to be subject to any formal procedure of ratification in the several countries represented has,not been stated. It seems likely in any ease that in all these countries there will be a ready! acceptance of the view expressed by, Mr Eden that: — The three Allies have laid down a basis for the future peace structure and created international machinery without which many of our desires would remain but good intentions. The outcome of the Moscow conference has been described justly by an American newspaper as a smashing defeat for the Axis. The last door of escape by which the Axis gangsters might have hoped to escape the consequences of their crimes—that which might haver been opened by divisions between the Allies—has been bolted and barred. Hitler and his accomplices may be as desperately intent as ever on spinning out the war as long as possible, but their doom is written plainly. The solemn warning issued by the Moscow conference that Germans guilty of war crimes “will be- brought back to the scene of their crimes and judged on. the spot by the people they outraged” is not only to be welcomed from a standpoint of justice, but may ultimately lead to a cleavage, if not in the Nazi Party, in the German armed forces. For the time being the war criminals are having their way. New standards of atrocity and massacre are being established by the Germans in the areas in Russia and Italy out of which their armies are being driven. Before long, however, it may become a question how far those who, in the words of the Allied declaration, “have hitherto refrained from staining their hands with innocent blood” are prepared to link their fate with that of the monsters in human form whom the Allies have undertaken to pursue “to the uttermost ends of the earth and deliver them to their accuser in order that justice may be done.”