IF WAR COMES
FAE WOESETHp XASU SMUTS WARNS WORLD (Received 9th October,, Ua-nu): LONDON/ Bth Oetobor. General Smuts, speaking on disarmament at Sheffield University, said that the armaments of the world Were now greater than in 1914, and unless al real measure of disarmament ended thai armed peace, the world was heading fori a cataclysm infinitely worse thaii tha World War. ««The fighting forceo will go straight for the urban popnlationav using unheard of chemical and biological weapons, which will coyer cities with poison and disease germs. Already, the laboratories of three Continents are busy with deadly researches. When: "a lunatic or criminal presses the bnttona the flower of the human race will be trapped. Unless a beginning is made with a policy of disarmament, Germany, may claim the right to arm once moreand to decline-to continueto sit among her peers of the League of Nations as an inferior. Yet the question of allowing Germany to re-arm would raise ever more dangerous issues than.general dis armament." • :
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 7
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166IF WAR COMES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 7
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