PILOTLESS SHIP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 1

PILOTLESS SHIP.

G. B. Shaw on the Perils of War. LONDON, February 9. Broadcasting in the “Whither Britain?” series, Mr George Bernard Sha-w said Britain was not heading an3'\vhere. “ It is a pilotless ship, and quite likely to drift into war if somebody starts one. ’ “ Contrary to the popular conception of war’s horrors, I believe that when bombing fleets simultaneously approach the antagonists’ capitals, the air will be filled with wireless messages of surrender. Indemnities will be cancelled out after a squabble at Geneva. Therefore, the most disgraceful and most inglorious war will peter out ridiculously. It is unnecessary to protest against the increase of bombers. Airmen will not be able to land and eat their dinners if gas is on the earth.” Mr Shaw added that he was prepared to. guess cheerfully “Whither Britain?” if Britain means British ideas and British stock. He was unable to guess its destination when he thought in terms of a combination of Britons and millions cf miscellaneous dark races. “ I think an Asiatic combination, headed by Japan, could easily frighten Northern Europeans, America and Australasia into a more permanent combination than the present British countries. Meanwhile the Dominions are likely to break off unless made so independent of England’s cnly function —expensively to protect them—which, nevertheless, would result, as at Ottawa, in the tail wagging the dog.”