May 31.
Anthony Eden, Britain's Secretary for a Affairs, was probably wise in giving the world some idea of what Great Britain's war alms are, though they are but slightly sketched in. 'That also is, perhaps, just. as well for, while it may be possible to out Tine the' buses upon which it is hoped to found the future peace of Europe, naturally proposals cannot be made more definite until 1s Known just how the world will emerge from this war, Mr, Elen adopted President Roosevelt's "four freedoms" a phrase which may ultimately become as familiar as the famous "Fourteen points." They are free~ dom of speech and thought, freedom to worship God, freedom from fear and freedom from want, The frst two form the very heart of the democratic system. They are liberties which were no} secured without a Jong and bitter struggle. They are far too precious to be surrendered now and Britons and possibly even Americans may find them= selves considerably extended before these two important rights of man are again vine dicated.
Freedom from fear ranks as the third of the four. Tt must obviously be one of the chiot alms of this war to make certain that ever again shall Europe be drenched in blood at the behest of the megalomaniac leaders of the brulalitarian Powers. Security is what Is wanted, A. stable peace in which Europe can go about healing the wounds inflicted upon her by two grievous wars and a very unsatisfactory peace. "How that is to bbe achieved is but another of those problems to be associated with the coming peace, and will not be solved unless. the statesmen of the world bring to the peace conference better understandings of the issues at stake than was the ease at Versailles, 'The Allies Jost the peace after the lash war almost as soon as the ink on the treaties was dry. 'Phere were about it so many. injustices tha' men Ike the Into Viscount Esher expressed the gravest double as to whether Europe would then survive a quarter of a century of harmony, Their doubts are now proved to have been justited in the event.
It is in his slight indication of how it is proposed to secure freedom from want] thad Mr, Eden indicates how best freed: from fear may be obtained. "It is our wish," he stated, "with olliers, to prevent after the armistice' period of starvation, currency disorders throughout Europe and wide: fluctuations of employment, markets and prices which caused so much misery during the twenty yenrs between the two wars. When peace comes we shall make such relaxations in our war-time financial arrangements as will permit revival of international trade on the widest possible basis. We shall hope to see development of a system of international exchange in which trading goods and services will be a central feature One of the most distressing features of the last peace was the rapid growth of a narrow nationalism throughout tke world. That led a bitter economic struggle which is one fof the causes of the present war, and will continue to be one until it is superseded by the widest internationalism possible, through freedom from want that freedom from fear is to be found. Something has to be done to see that all peoples shall receive their due share of the rich fruits of the earth, that the results of overproduc~ n shall find their way into the lands where there are deficiencies. tis by stich as the countries of the British Empire and their Allies, together with the United States und South America that it may be possible to devise & worldwide economic system in which the evils of the past shall be missing. To return to the former chaotic state of the world is, it is hoped, impossible, Then con= trast what the democracies have to offer the world with what the aggressor Powers! seek to shackle upon it. The democracies offer ultimate security and liberty; the Axis Powers nothing but worldwide serfdom, the way of darkness as contrasted with the way of light. The aggressor Powers have nothing
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