The Problem Of Peace

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28550, 1 April 1958, Page 3

The Problem Of Peace

Sir.—From the 1914 “scrap of paper” down to the present rearming of Western Germany the diplomatic world has exemplified the contradictions and inconsistencies of power politics. Technological factors and the atomic bomb have now collectivised the problem of human survival, and the status to which modern man has been lowered —that of a by-product of physical and social processes—is resulting in public opinion in many countries demanding that the force of law replace the law of force. The cold winds of doubt and fear arising from this moral and spiritual depression should warn us of the tragically inadequate quality of international politics compared with its twentieth century balance sheet. When politicians discard their military blinkers, fields of trade will replace the cult of nationalism, and through stages of expediency and compromise, break the mental barrier of ill-will before which the iron and gold curtains will dissolve. —-Yours, etc., WHITE WATERS. March 31, 1958.