WAR-LIKE SONGS FOR INFANTS
TO THE EDITOB «X THE PRESS. Sir __My grandchild was singing this song: We don’t want to march with the Ride with the cavalry, shoot with the ar We want to fly over territory. We want to sail the seas, that nothing happens to the Kings navy. We don’t want to bomb with the bombarthe Grenadiers, dig with the engineers, . . . ' Or anv of th 6 old tank corps. We want to sail the seas, an cl see that nothing happens to the Kings navy. I asked him where he learned it. He replied. “We sing it at school. He is in the infants’ class, being five years of age. If we are training our children for war a? soon as they l e ave the cradle, then I think that we should stop chanting the prayer Give peace in our time. O Lord.” We deprecate Mussolini for taking the babies of seven and eight years, but in our Public schools we start the military training at five years. , It makes one exclaim: Poor humanity, doomed to destructmn^-You^etc.. December 15,’ 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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