WAR COMPLEX.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 6

WAR COMPLEX.

\our ixric.-pondcni. H. McXauphlon. quotes one Alduu* Huxley a* having discovered certain psychological factors (in investigation amongst native races in Central America) as being conducive to a war complex. 1 suggest that it » not necessary to leave a civilised country to discover those factors. I presume that the factors mentioned apply only to adolescents, but what about factor*, thai tend to create a war complex in the minds of minor*. They are evident in the social and educational systems of nearly every country. In the iii>t place, parents sow the seed of a war complex in the mind? of their lioys by giving them toy gun- to play with; that seed germinates in the playground -where hove play with each other and w developed in pictures they sec (particularly of the western type. Books they read, in which fighting is featured, and in what thev hear frr-m official speakers, extolling the hemic exploit of those who ha\e iak<-n part in ritlicr present or y.x.-x wars. Those factors j.;.-; . ir ,. t,, ,1,,. x „.,„,, ,„:.„] „ar a- an adventure. M.iv 1 .piote ~ few word.- from ; , let;,.,- written l.y a soldier nl the We-tcii Front. In referring to hi. patrol, he savv: "They ?*t all the adventure thev <ra\e f«»r anil more: for true adventure there U nothing like * night patrol. ]?. sI'AKKS,