ARMAMENTS AND PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 6

ARMAMENTS AND PEACE.

Miss Eva P. Cato's answer to "Cadet N.C.O.'s" letter , does net get anywhere near the vital question. She says that the en rnent of conscription means persecution, surely we are law-abiding enough to rea ise that the burden of defence should be P equally over the whole of the people of leaving it to the more willing helpers. . reason why Canada and the U.S.A. do armed boundaries is because the cconoi . (lition in each country is about the saill • that great overpopulated country thnia side and another Hadrian's Wall wouW J* necessary. Livingstones pcacetul pen into Africa would probably have ende ently if ho had taken a few friends va a single adventurer will excite cunosi out alarm in any uncivilised country. . tion, as she says, depends very truly development of civil life, more per ia P intensive educational life, and if ver y preserve our civilisation we must iia . efficient defence force to protect 1 a us in keeping the peace. I fl a e ,. Remarque's German war experiences, j on "Under Fire" —a more vigorous Irench ers, -and also "The Case of Sergeant Griscn German-Russian epic. I myself s P en * . gj. a-half years in the front line and rea c j eI j. haps much more than the 3 tious objector what we have to avo ' may be safe now, but in the years _ what chances would our children g the continuity of training stopped, paraded and only a