Officers and A.N.Z.U.S
Sir, — After months of seeming acquiescence you have now found some new allies. You have produced arguments with more vigour but less validity. The argument for reversing our anti-nuclear policy as promulgated by the former chiefs of staff depends first on the acceptance that the world is divided into two camps and should remain so, and second, on the acceptance of nuclear deterrence. Let us not forget that these generals are old men who have led us into military alliances involving us in disastrous conflicts such as the Vietnam War. Naturally they support such alliances. Their promotion and status have depended on it. They are pawns of a mili-tary-industrial complex which depends for its continued existence on polarisation of the world’s population. Their World War II mentality is as outmoded as is the concept of nuclear deterrence being a legitimate form of world peace. — Yours, etc., JOHN SNELGROVE. • SUSAN SNELGROVE
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