SCIENCE IN WARFARE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 18

SCIENCE IN WARFARE

The scientific development of implements'and munitions of war is discussed by Mr J. L. Garvin in the Observer. Under the Nazi regime, he says, with its doctrine of power at any price, experiment has been intensified. It seems likely that about two years ago the problem of translating imagination into practice was solved. In the world of science to-day there is no bane of this kind without an antidote, Mr Garvin continues. When frightfulness in the last war launched the first staggering attack of poison gas as Ypres, British science within one week devised a better gas-mask than the Germans possessed, and reduced the "secret weapon" of that day to insignificance. It will be the same now, although the remedy may take a little more time to apply in practice. More than ever we should concentrate on the decisive question of the whole war. Nothing but the creation of an overwhelming air supremacy can enable the Allies to carry the war into the enemy's country and to kill all frightfulness at the root.