WARLIKE GERMANY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21315, 17 October 1932, Page 12

WARLIKE GERMANY

Sir, Mr. P. L. Snelling now says that ho "did not accuse the German nation of being unwarlike." In his letter of October 6 he "challenged my statement that she was. If this is not implying (not accusing, which would be absurd)amounting almost to an assertion that in Mr, Snelling's opinion Germany is unwarlike. I fail to see any other reasonable interpretation. To differ from me because I did not also criticise Japan or Franco is no argument at all, and proves nothing. Mr. Snelling's letters make no proposal in any way to alter things. He pleads that we always have been warlike, and we are yet. He says, "War has become an inherent quality in man for countless centuries, and therefore cannot be abruptly effaced in a few months, or even years." "The Utopia of world peace is rather premature," and so on. His creed appears to be "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen"! Pious hopes that the League of Nations may be successful and producing reasons galore why it can't, lead only to the same hopeless end, and that end is war, with the horrors of the last multiplied, till the contemplation alone one gick. In the Herald of October 12 is an extract from a letter in 'the Times by BrigadierGeneral J. H. Morgan: "If agreement is not reached soon, the German army Will again become the most powerful in Europe." With what object? 231 Parnell Road. J. Thornes.