London, Oct. 19.
PEAKING yesterday evening at the 122nd annual meeting of the International Peace Society, at Guildhall, Mr. Anthony Eden, former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, referred to the fact that the day of the establishment of the rule of law in international affairs, for which. millions the world over had ardently hoped after the last Great War, seemed once more fo be receding. He declared his faith that that day would, nevertheless, come again.
"It is inevitable," Mr. Eden said, "because there never can be true peace nor true happiness where might is only right." Certain realities, however, had to be faced, including the fact that nations, whose internal economy was differently organized from the British, had outdistanced Great Britain in the arms race.
"The task, which now confronts us," Mr. Eden went on, "in organizing the nation for defence, which includes material armaments on a scale not hitherto contempjated—particularly in air and in anti-aircraft defence—is so formidable as to require united effort by every section of the community."
Such national effort to succeed, he said, must be based, in the broadest sense, on national confidence backed by national approval.
It demanded, therefore, a programme upon which the ce-operation of all parties could be secured.
Such a programme, Mr. Eden thought, might be to promote unity and strength and, through unity and strength, to practice a sense of justice between nations and to uphold fair dealings in the world, A sense of justice, he continued, was no less important than strength and unity,
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