Navy League and League of Nations

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 11

Navy League and League of Nations

Sir. —I am in entire agreement with the end part of “Guard Your Rights” letter. Intelligent peace teaching is what the average mother desires for her children. My only complaint is that the present system is so lop-sided. Children are not capable of judging lhe uselessness of wnr when they are constantly having the glories of it dished up to them. I don't think it is necessary to argue the rights or otherwise of tbe last war. Hundreds of books have already been written on the subject, aud few agree as to the cause, the only thing they show clearly is the uselessness of it all. All I desire is that the children shall be taught such things as the following. That the money spent on the Great .War would have provided :—A new house costing £5OO for every family in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France. Belgium. Germany and Russia: and with it a £lOO section and £2OO of furniture. Every great city in the countries named could have been given a £1.000.000 library, a £1.000,000 hospital and a £'..’,000.000 University. And there would still be enough left to buy up all France aud Belgium. Even a child can see the useless waste of that, and their histories will teach them how quickly a. nation's honour can be at stake if they desire a war. If they are taught also that Einstein. Baldwin, Field-Marshal Haig, Bertrand Russell. Professor Gilbert Murray (one could go on with a list of scientists, soldiers, and the greatest thinkers of our day)—have told, us again and again that the inventions for war—since the last war are so terrible that whole nations can be wiped out—anti another world war will wipe out our civilisation, then even children will regard war as the relic ol barbarism that, it is. If they then engage in the suicide of our race, they will do it with their eyes open.-T am, etc., Karon. December 8.