MODERN WARFARE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 9

MODERN WARFARE

Sir, —I am sure I speak for many readers in thanking you for your leading article, “Modern Warfare,” in Saturday’s issue. Much good will come from critical self-examination; and it is surely a healthy sign that so soon after the war Captain Liddell Hart should speak, even though primarily as a military specialist, of our moral shortcomings as a nation at war. If this attitude found expression in an international commission of inquiry into the causes of the war and the basis of peace, might not the decisions in equity which such a commission could give lay the foundations of a true system of world law? Within the state we accept this system of impartial inquiry. In it there is more hope for mankind than in the revengeful, hate-perpetuating trial of our former enemies, with ourselves as self-appointed prosecutor and judge invoking a law framed by ourselves to suit ourselves.—Yours, etc., F, A. JONES, June 26, 1946.

Sir,—The modern twentieth century struggle continues in this enlightened generation between Communist and Fascist, Nazi and Christian, and it will decide our destinies. As Dawson neatly puts it, “There are so many Jerusalems. There is the Russian Jerusalem that has no temple, and Herr Hitler’s Jerusalem that has no Jews, and the Jerusalem of the humanitarian that seems all suburbs; but these Jerusalems are all at war with one another, and, what is worse, they are at war with the city of God.” It is no wonder that men fall into bewilderment and despair ana are ready to try any system that seems to show a w r ay out of the chaos. —Yours, A WORLD IN CHAOS. June 27, 1946.