WAR’S FRIGHTFULNESS

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 5

WAR’S FRIGHTFULNESS

must not rush into it LLOYD GEORGE’S APPEAL By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. London, Nov. 10. Opening the Daily Express exhibition of pictures depicting war horrors, Mr. Lloyd George said: “I do not believe war is imminent but its ferocious grin is just above the horizon. That is why I decided to tell the truth in my memoir to a generation almost ignorant of war. “We must educate the young people about war’s horrors. Such knowledge will not prevent them, if it is necessary, from being willing to defend a noble cause but it must be certain that if calamity comes again it must be for an adequate cause. . “Frightfulness was not particularly German. It is an integral part of war which means killing, mutilating, drowning, shattering and starving. In the next war the children will be in the front line. The same bombs and the same gas will kill and strangle them as it did their parents. “Humanity must not be rushed into war for motives of ambition, racial hatreds and racial jealousies.”