WAR SPIRIT EVIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 9

WAR SPIRIT EVIL.

WILL FOR PEACE URGED. LLOYD GEORGE WARNS YOUTH. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Juy 20 A striking warning to youth to combine against the war spirit was uttered by Mr. Lloyd George in a speech at the' world convention of the Christian Endeavour Union. Mr. George said he belonged to a class j tjic members of which had boen brought up in a world in which armaments, with occasional wars, were regarded as part of the grim essentials of human civilisation. A more horrible, devastating and greater war than the last had yet to come unless youth tore that idea from the heart of civilisation. It had been said that it was the old men who had made wars in which the young were killed. That was not the case. He could never forget the days of 1914 when Whitehall was thronged with young men clamouring for war. When, the war spirit came it swept over all ages and classes. Youth must get away from that idea, otherwise he warned his hearers that the last war would prove not to have been the greatest. Peace was impossible without disarmament. Armies were a temptation to any nation. In spite of the world war there were greater armies in Europe to-day than there ever had been before. Europe had drunk armaments until she had suffered from delirium tremens in 1914, and she was going on secretly drinking now.