NO MORE WAR!
PROTECTING THE WEAK
“The old appeals for war in the name of a good cause fall coldly now on the instructed ear and cease to carry conviction to thoughtful minds.” ‘Would you not go to war to protect the weak?* men ask. The answer seems obvious.
A modern war to protect the weak —that is a grim jest. See how modem war protects the weak. 10.000.000 known dead soldiers; 3,000,000 returned dead soldiers; 13,000,000 dead civilians; 20,000.000 wounded; 3,000,000 prisoners; 9,000,000 war orphans; 5.000.000 war widows; 10,000,000 refugees. Wluit can we meanmodern war protecting the weak? The conviction grows clear in increasing multitudes of minds that modern war is not the way to protect the weak. \ World Court would protect the weak. A League of Nations would protect the weak. An international mind, barked by a Christian conscience, that would stop the race for arniiam *nts, provide co-operative substitutes for violence, forbid the nations to resort to force, and finally outlaw war altogether—that would protect the weak. But this is clear: war will not do it. It is the nmk by millions who in every modern war.”
Dr. Fosdick (preaching in the Geneva Cathedral during the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations). Prom “Brotherhood.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 10
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