'WAR WITH GLOVES OFF'

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1927, Page 9

'WAR WITH GLOVES OFF'

EEVIEW BY DEAN INGE

LONDON, 27th July. Commenting on the air manoeuvres, Dean Inge, in an arresting article in the "Evening Standard," says: ''It is war with the gloves off. lam amazed at the civilised world's ready acquiescence in the appalling belief that the next war will sco the promiscuous massacre of non-combatant men, and children. There is something radically wrong with a civilisation which thus will deliberately return to the worst tradtions of savagery. It is rei^ression to a point far beyond the Greeks and Romans We have to go back to the Book of Joshua for anything approaching the horror of what responsible statesmen say we must expect in the next war." Eeferring to how wars are caused, Dean Inge says: "We must remember there is one diabolical Government, that of Eussia, which would not shrink at massacring three-quarters of Europe if the remaining quarter could be subjected to tho miseries inflicted on fieir own people. The bitter truth must be spoken. Until this nest of hornets is smoked out, disarmament in Europe is impossible. Italy i 3 said to be a menace to peace. In my opinion Signor Mussolini is only .indulging in tho cian-g..-ous game of sabre-rattling.