Damping Down War

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31110, 13 July 1966, Page 17

Damping Down War

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, July 12. Unarmed United Nations peace-keeping forces and the use of sexually attractive women to damp down aggressive emotions in war situations were two of the proposals made by Dr. Martin Bax, secretary of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, at the association’s annual conference in Oxford. The M.A.P.W. was formed 10 years ago and has a membership of 300 doctors.

Dr. Bax suggested that If United Nations troops were disarmed It would be impossible for either party of a dispute to regard them as aggressors. Research showed that

soldiers found it difficult to kill attractive women, so it was odd that “women in the services are put into uniforms to make them look as much like men as possible. By doing this we are throwing away a possible antiwar weapon.” Dr. Bax said: “It Is very difficult for men to attack people who remind them of their own culture images. “Thus aggression ean be lessened if opposing forces looked like each other’s Ideal. “In Vietnam, the Americans should look like Buddhists and the Viet Cong should strive to resemble the gate-fold girls of the centre pages of the “Playboy” magazine.