THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Sir-No speech of Mr. Berendsen’s, no matter how wise or eloquent, is sufficient to interest the ordinary man in the League of Nations at this stage of the World conflict. The ordinary man has long ago formed the opinion that the League of Nations was only such in name and, to the majority of its members, a league of the governing-classes who had the temerity to assume that they represented the interests of all sections of their nations. The fundamental reason why the League of Nations failed was because it was political. The only means of preventing further world war is to have a world authority: with real power. based on principles whith do justice to peoples, large and small. Such a world authority must have an economic basis as well as military power. It must be put in a position to organise international transport on land, sea and air; to extract, refine, and Uistribute oil, and arrange for the world marketing of important commodities like wheat, cotton, wool, and metals. f If the citizen of the future is to live in peace, he must evolve a world political organisation backed by real economic power. Science has given him the technical instruments with which he’ can found such a world order, and modern history is teaching him the penalty that will follow if he does not do so.
R. S.
W.
(Timaru).
(Abridged.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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