CAUSES OF WAR
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Referring to the discussions on the various causes of war in recent issues might one suggest that those causes are economic in the main? To declare that war is not due to economic causes and then to say that economic factors lead to friction and irritations which may lead to conflict, and in fact generally do end that way, is just about the same thing as saying that i the factor in question is the main one. | If, when this war is won, as it will be won, we deliberately shut our eyes to the economic factor as one of the main causes for modern wars (meaning thereby the desire for territory, markets, and the opportunities for accumulating wealth) then we shall surely be courting trouble for our-, selves and probably another war later on. I am not, at the moment, arguing whether these motives are justifiable or otherwise; but merely that they exist and must be reckoned with. Of course there are other causes and motives, which inter-play one with another, but that is not to say that economic factors are not the principal ones in the great war tragedy.—l am, etc. INQUIRER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 8
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