The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-10-12
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

champion in Walter Nash, president
of the 1914 International Labor Con-
ference Deputy Prime Minister of New
Zealand and former Minister of FL
nance of his country'S Labor govern
ment.
At a time when the four big powers
are being charged with seeking to
dominate any future world organiza-
ton that may be formed, leaving the
small nations with virtually no voice
in the making of decisions, Nash di-
rects emphatic attention to the i'm
portance of the small powers in the
preservation of the peace. Hfs views
are made public in Postwar Planning
for Peace and Full Employment, an
important pamphlet of the League for
Industrial Democracy.
Close cooperation between the four
powers, Nash contends, is in the, nature
of the case, 'the first prerequisite of
world security" But, he adds, 'even
the most complete understanding that
may be reached between these powers
will not in itself be sufficient to guar
antee security permanently. The
smaller powers must also be given
the opportunity, ~and be provided with
the means of having their voices heard
in decisions that are as vitally impOr-
tant to them as to their larger and
more powerful partners amongst the
United and Associated Nations.
"Although small countries may have
little power to initiate international
policies, experience has clearly shown
that they possess considerable capacity
ability to obstruct, if their wishes and
interests are ignored, must not be
Unless therefore steps are
taken now to check the growth of
of suspicion and resent
ment which naturally develop when
small countries find themselves per-
sistently kept at arms length, the
execution later of plans that in them
selves are clearly in the best interests
of the world as a whole may be
All nations, he writes, are expected
10 share in the sacrifices connected
with the maintenance of peace. "All
must be allowed to express them
selves and to enjoy a measure of
as well as responsibility in
is achievement
The New Zealand statesman con-
ends that world security depends upon |
he development of economic security, |
Justice and the spirit of democracy |
within each nation IF the seeds of |
aggression are allowed to sprout with
n the economic and social fabric OF |
my nation" he asserts, that nation, |
n spite of any international police
'orce will sooner or later be a |
my other nations"
He calls attention to the danger in
'olved in declaring ones own people
/ race or nation inherently superior
o other peoples. IF inside the United
States of yours, in European countries
II 1IlGld OF lllSluc 1HlIld, the lued Is
lllowed to sprout and grow that they
ire a superior people, that they are
.hOsen by some power beyond our
ordinary understanding to dominate
nd control the world, there is no
'eace for the world,
He demands that social maladjust-
nents, 'the real source of Imperialism
nd aggression" be ruthlessly stamped
ut. He maintains that unemployed
abor, unused skill, undeveloped re-
esources, idle factories and machines,
annot be tolerated by nation at
'eace any more than by nation at
var and makes an eloquent plea that
he nations with high living standards
hould assist those "obliged to live on
nuch lower standards under the
hadow of insecurity, unemployment,
overty, ill-health, disease and desti-
ution"