Evening star., 1941-04-09
Lord Halifax
Speaks at
Luncheon
Need for Postwar
Accord of L. S.
And Britain Seen

Lord Halifax, the British Am
terday that the success of any post
war movement to maintain world
peace would depend on the collabor-
alton of the United States and the
British commonwealth.
In answer to questions at a
Women's National Press Club lunch
con, Lord Halifax, who was guest
speaker, suggested that any CO.
operation among nations designed
to assure peace would have to be
by general agreement. Unless the
United States and the British COM
monWealth remain close together
there is not much likelihood of
general agreement from anybody
else, he asserted.
The speaker said he could not
anticipate what form such co-opera-
ton would take, when asked if he
were suggesting postwar alliance
along the lines of the League of
Nations.
The discussion developed when
4Itl I1dlldh "do obOoO
the German people as belligerents.
do you believe there is some
thing inherent in their nature which
causes Germans to provoke war
every 20 years?" a member wanted
to know.
Unwise in Choice of Leaders.
''I don't know that Germans have
q larger dose of original sin than
English or Americans" he replied,
"but they have been less wise in
choosing their leaders"
After the war, he added, it will be
the plain duty of those who love
peace to make 1t clear that the
world can't afford to have them start
another war.
Lord Halifax, who discussed the
significance of events in the Balkans,
expressed the belief that Hitler and
Mussolini are learning that while
they can choose the dates for start
ing wars, they cannot choose the
dates for ending them.
Drawing particular attention to
the long" Nazi army order OF the
day before, he described 1t as a
'most revealing document" showing
Hitler's imperative need for self
justification of his policy before his
own people.
Later in his address he predicted
that the time will surely come"
when the people of Italy and Ger
many, realizing how they have been
misled will turn against the parties
which "by force and fraud and
graft" have placed themselves in
control of the states.
Holding that Hitler has, against
his wishes, been forced into active
military operations in the Balkans,
the Ambassador also pointed to the
significance of the fact that yet
another small nation, following the
example of the Greeks" has pub
licly proclaimed it is not afraid to
stand up and challenge the German
aggressor.
No Room for Compromise.
Neither Yugoslavia nor Greece has
been slow to appreciate that the
present struggle is clash between
rival PHILOSOPHERS and that there is
no room for compromise, he said.
Of Mussolini's involvement in the
war, Lord Halifax declared the
Italian leader now found himself
obliged to accept help from his axis
partner in form clearly undoing
the work of all the great liberators
of three quarters of a century ago.
About 200 members and guests at
tended the luncheon which was held
at the Willard Hotel with Helen
Essary, the club president. presiding.
Among those at the head table
were the Minister from the
Union of South Africa and Mrs.
Ralph william Close, the Min
lister from Australia and Mrs.
Richard G. Casey. Mrs. Cordell Hull,
wife of the Secretary of State; Mrs.
Robert H. jackson, wife of the At
torney General; Sir Evelyn Wrench
and Lady Wrench, former Ambassa-
dor Alanson B. Houghton, DR.. Ed
ward S. Corwin of Princeton, Mrs.
Arthur Woods, chairman of the Vir-
ginia Garden Tours for Bundles for
Britain, and Miss Nancy Strong,
cherry blossom queen.