WAR ABOLITION
THE ONLY WAV. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Speaking at the League of Nations dinner at the Guildhall, General Smuts said that if a serious reduction of navies were agreed to in January the way would be open to attack the more difficult subjects of military and aerial warfare, which constituted the most serious danger to civilisation. He was doubtful about President Hoover’s suggestion of immunity for foodships. As soon as the first shot
was fired in wartime humanising expedients were apt to go by the ' board. War was inexpressibly barbarous and could not be effectively humanised. Its utter inhumanity would be its undoing.
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Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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107WAR ABOLITION Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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