Wairarapa Times-Age MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. WORK FOR VICTORY AND PEACE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1943, Page 2

Wairarapa Times-Age MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. WORK FOR VICTORY AND PEACE.

TURKISH newspapers are quoted by the Ankara correspondent of “The 'fimes” as observing that the mere fuel of I lie meetings of Allied leaders in Cairo and in Teheran occurring is evidence that the previous meeting of foreign Ministers in Moscow was a success and paved the way for the later deliberations. This opinion will be shared very widely and no donb the official report on the Teheran meeting, which is promised within a day or two will show that there, as in Cairo, the Allied Powers took an important forward step in the iiniheation ol policy and aims looking not only Io the defeat ol Ihe common enemv, but to tin* organisation ol peace.

It remains true, however, as General Smuts pointed out in an address to the Empire Parliamentary Association lasi week, that there can be no quick, complete and final sel l lenient ol J he vast, complicated and difficult questions by which the llniled Nations are faced. The South African Prime Minister is not alone in suggesting that the Allied nations “may have Io be satisfied with a comprehensive armistice ending the war, and leave the rest of the problems to a long series of conferences ■without coming to any general peace conference. , I hi 1 same course has been advocated for some time past by a lormei I resident of the United States, Mr Herbert Hoover.

This procedure is perhaps subject to the danger that, with the war ended, nations may become slack and indifferent in their attack on perplexing problems ol post-war settlement and adjustment, opening the way once again to international anarchy and aggression. That, however, is precisely what 10l lowed on the attempt made, after the 1914-18 war, Io arrive quickly at a comprehensive peace settlement. The dangers‘l hat were invited after the last war and would he invited again by failure to develop an effective •international organisation are in themselves deadly, but they will not he increased by methodical and deliberate efforts io work out the conditions of a stable world order.

It is now possible to anticipate confidently that Germany and Japan will be brought to unconditional surrender and that an end will be made decisively of the power of these nations to engage in predatory aggression against the rest of the world. As General Smuts has pointed out. however, the eclipse of the Axis aggressors in some contingencies would stir up new international enmities, “which might lead to still more colossal struggles for world power.”

A dependable system of collective security can be established on no other basis than a recognition by even the greatest nations that their overshadowing interest is in tiie maintenance of peace and that this implies the inclusion of all nations, great and small, that are genuinely intent on peace in what the Australian Minister of External Affairs (Dr Evatt) has called “an organised family of nations determined to give effect to the declared objectives of the United Nations.”