TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Way Out For Germany “There is nothing that Germany is entitled to—peace freedom prosperity, equality—that she could not have had by peaceful negotiation. Herr Hitler preferred the more congenial role of butchery and of force. The pages of history are red with the records of such mistaken men, and the evil that they do unhappily lives after them. We arj seeking to establish a world order under which small nations will feel themselves as secur as the great nations feel themselves, a world in which Germany, as well as ourselves, can live contentedly and harmoniously in peace and freedom. That way of honourable readjustment and development is open to Germany now if she is willing to take it. But she cannot now, and she never will, secure German domination through the practice of the principles of Neitzsche and brutality and aggression. I would like to see a peace offensive on our own account. I think we should take an early opportunity to launch upon the world a constructive idea, the outlines of a plan for an equitable world order. Then, if we have to wage this war to the bitter end, we shall do so fortified by the knowledge that we have offered to a perplexed and grieving world a more excellent way.” Lord Snell, a Labour peer, in the House of Lords.