TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Crusade for Peace If British idealism and sentiment were in command of destinv all the nations could afford at once to beat their spears into ploughshares and their swords into pruning-hooks, but our planning lies at the mercy of dictatorships. And they are now advised in a note just a little harder than Mr Chamberlain has employed before that ‘it is to reason we are prepared to listen and not to force.’ He seems to gather some encouragement, too, from the revelation of history that ‘attempts at domination are never successful for long.’ That truth, by the way, should be kept in mind by the pessimistic seers whose conception has come to include a world completely governed from Berlin. So the crusade for peace by agreement goes on. That is Mr Chamberlain’s message to the world; that remains the policy of the British Government. It may fail, of course, but this contingency is somewhat lightened by the information that our defence preparations have now advanced far enough for Britain to fulfil all her obligations to the Empire and her Allies.”—The Northern Daily Telegraph