Armed Forces Of World Regarded As Obsolete

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 117, 22 May 1946, Page 5

Armed Forces Of World Regarded As Obsolete

Received 5.5 p.m, OTTAWA, May 20. “Any Government that became convinced it would have to fight any other country would be most foolish in deed not to neutralise that country immediately. Any realistic Governmen t could be counted on to take such action,” said Major-General Brock Chisholm, Canada’s Deputy-Minister of Health, formerly Director-General of Medical Services for the Canadian Army, in a speech.

Major-General Chisholm saidi he thought that guns, tanks, | navies, armies, anil air forces I were obsolete as fighting instru-; mentis. except for mopping up] operalions, in the taking over of! a de-populatccl, or an almost de-1 populated country. ‘‘One thousand or so visitors could spread bacteria or toxins

sufficient to paralyse any country's power of aggression, ” i Major-General Chisholm added, I and emphasised that parents must [ tell their children the truth about! world affairs if mankind were to 1 escape a third world war. “It is difficult for us to boast of the American way of life, or the British way of lift, or any

other way which has allowed World Wars I. and 11. Io occur, with ghastly loss of life an .1 widespread suffering.” he said. ‘‘These same vaunted ways of life, if they go on in the same way, will. of course, allow- World War 111.. wMtich, if it comes, wilt destroy most of the human race.”