Nothing Specific to Prevent War

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

Nothing Specific to Prevent War

Wells Disappointed in Women MEETING -with H. G. Wells is an occasion to look forward to, for this brilliant writer rarely receives the press, says an overseas writer. My own glimpse of the rich mind of the author came wlien we sat at tea in his London flat. Wells himself was a revelation. He has passed his seventieth birthday, but, saved by an athletic figure, from being portly, lie looks more like fifty-five. "Can women help to outlaw war?" I asked. The famous scientist shook his head. "That women are not doing anything at all effective about peace is one of the disappointments of liberal thinkers of our time. "Women make protests against war, but many still think it is a fine, romantic thing. "There is no specific feminine thinking on the side of peace. Women have not brought anything toward it, and seem to care little for all the efforts going on to create cosmopolitan control that would banish war from the world for ever. "From that I feel sure that there will not be any special political life for the women of to-morrow," pointed out H. G. Wells. "As they become liberated, they will no doubt come into politics. "But there is no sex in politics. The idea of distinct women's politics, of a woman's great political movement, is just a suffragette dream."