Evening star., 1943-05-05
Angel Declares
Nations Must
Stand Together
W0men Voters
Told Peace Can
Then Be Guarded
Bv Frances Lide

Bv FRANCES Lac
That "all who value peace and
freedom must be prepared to stand
together against the aggressor," is
the first basic principle which must
be accepted by public opinion if any
peace system is to work, Sir Norman
Angel, author and lecturer, told the
biennial general council of the
National League Of Women Voters
yesterday.
The speaker. who made the key
note address at council luncheon
held at the Statler Hotel, chose as
his topic, Let the People Know,
the title of his latest book.
The first right of all that we
have to defend is the right to life,
whether as nation or as person. u
Sir Norman declared IF this right
is not secure no other has much
value.
ITO tell man he has the right
to attend the church he likes, or
will be provided for in his old age,
but at the same time to tell him
that if any angry neighbor cares
to bump him off no measures will be
taken to defend him, comes near to
being a bad joke" he continued.
yet this right to life, the right
not to be destroyed must be defend
ed collectively by the community
whether it be the national commu-
nifty, in the case of persons, or the
international community, in the case
of nations-or it cannot be defended
at ALL
The speaker pointed out that 10
men can overcome a thousand if
each of the thousand insists he will
defend only himself From the
moment that about 20 nations in
Europe said, we will fight, but only
for ourselves he continued, they
were all at Hitler's mercy, because
he could apply to them what
Churchill has called the simple and
deadly plan of one by one On the
face of it, Norway of 5000 900
cannot defend itself against a Ger
many of 70000,000 Nor can a
Denmark, nor Belgium, nor Hol-
land, nor France, nor a Britain,
nor United States.
"Yet in the face of this obvious
fact, all alike refused to hang to-
gether in their arrangements for
defense The result is that 80
per cent of mankind is put in mortal
peril by its most evil 10 per cent
for the totalitarian powers repre-
sent only about 10 per cent of those
whom they have managed to put in
such a mortal peril"
Sir Norman stressed the impor-
tance OF public understanding of
the basic principles of peace.
The last peace failed, not because
the Allies came to the peace table
without any plan for postwar
world, but because public opinion
IN the Allied countries did not suffi-
GENTLY understand the need for the
obllgatlons which each nation must
assume if any peace system. any
system of international security is
to work" he asserted.
"A constitution, whether national
or international, does not work it.
self"
Sir Norman pointed out that no
new economic order can succeed or
be worthwhile if every decade or
two the whole world is to be burned
up IN the world wars which become
more and more destructive.
Socialism may be the right form
of society but, as Russia is discov-
erng, it cannot survive from the
attacks of totalitarians except with
the help of states that are not So
ciahst," he continued. Peace with
In nation does not depend upon
rival parties-New Deal, anti-New
Deal, Labor, Conservative-com
together to an agreement about their
respective theories; it depends upon
their agreeing to act together against
any party which attempts to impose