THE PACIFIST VIEWPOINT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 12

THE PACIFIST VIEWPOINT

Expressing pity for the volunteers as the victims of a misconception of duty "Pacifist" writes:—"ls it any wonder that' intelligent and educated young men of today are unwilling to serve a term of military training when they have the lesson of the Great War so vividly before them, when war propagandists told those millions who never came back that they were fighting a war to end.war, and the ministers of religion invoked the aid of Jesus Christ-

- "If we believe war is inevitable we are quite right in having a system of military, training to prepare citizens for the defence of our country. But if we believe, as I do, that war is -not inevitable and that one day we shall have a world without war, a world without national prejudices, but with an international outlook, then our time is better if it is spent in trying to improve human nature, in other words, look at ourselves and practise Christ's maxim 'Love thy neighbour as thyself.'" •

"There seems to be a regular hue and cry to whip up enthusiasm for the Territorial system," writes A. Barrington. "One gathers that this institution,* instead of being allowed to die quietly, is to be dragged into the limelight and subjected to artificial respiration." The correspondent ridicules "Anti-Passivist's" contention that the British peoples alone can guarantee the peace of the world. The Brotherhood of Man already exists, if we begin to act on that basis, but it cannot be done with uniforms or guns.