THE WAR SPIRIT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 9

THE WAR SPIRIT

A WARNING TO YOUTH

LLOYD GEORGE ON DANGER TO

CIVILISATION

EUROPE DRUNK ON ARMAMENTS,

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable-- Awn.) (Received 21st July, noon.)

LONDON, 20th July.

A striking warning to youth to combine against the war spirit was issued by Mr. Lloyd Georgti in a speech at the World Convention of the Christian Endeavour Union. He si-id that he belonged to a class which had been brought up in a world in which armaments, with occasional wars, were regarded as part of the grim essentials of human civilisation. Still more horrible and devastating, the greatest war had yet to cojie unless youth tore that idea from the heart of civilisation.

It had. been said that old men made wars in which the young were killed. That was not so. Let them never forget the days of 1014 when Whitehall was thronged with young men clamouring for war. When the war spirit came it swept all ages and classes. Youth must get away from that idea. "Otherwise," said Mr. Lloyd George, "I warn you the last war was not the greatest that will be waged. Peace is impossible without disarmament."

Armies, he continued, were a temptation to any nation. Despite the World War there were greater armies in Europe to-day than ever before. Europe had drunk of armaments until she got delirium tremens in 1914, and she was going on secretly drinking now.