WILL ALWAYS BE WARS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 11 March 1946, Page 4

WILL ALWAYS BE WARS

HUMAN NATURE THREAT TO PEACE

“Let us not deceive ourselves, there will be no more wars. So long as human nature remains the same, so long as some nat.ons have a higher standard of living and a greater proportion of the world’s resources than the others, there will always be wars, and there will always be the necessity for the Red Cross Society, its work and its influences,” declared Major N. C. Armstrong, M.C., speaking at the Rea Cross Sunday service in Wanganui yesterday. “In its charter the Red Cross is pledged to prepare itself in peace for its wartime work,” he said. “Let us therefore face this unpleasant thought and give our full support to the Red Cross so that it may prepare beforehand to alleviate the suffering which must follow in the inevitable conflict. “But the Red Cross can do more than this,” he added. It can, as it has done already by making the use of poison gas illegal, so influence public opinion among the nations that war will become a less hideous thing. The bombing of civilian towns and the wanton slaughter of women and children is the most uncivilised and barbarous practices since the Middle Ages,” he avowed. “With tiie advent of the atomic bomb the next war promises to be even worse. But with the influence of such a society as the Red Cross, with 33,000,000 members represe/t--ing 70 nations—practically all the civilised world—we can try to prevent civilisation from reverting to the barbarism whence it sprang,” Major Armstrong stated.