WAR HORRORS OF THE FUTURE.
"As Minister for Air, I can perhaps understand better than some people the horror of what would happen if a world war should come. It is my duty to study our preparations for defence, and to study the preparations, too, which are made by other nations. And I cannot, without veritable agony of mind, contemplate what would occur if war in the air should break out. I know as a technician that we can destroy inoomparahly better than we can defend. Such a war if it broke out, would be an abomination which would destroy the civilisation in which we live. And I say that the moral ruin which it would create would be greater even than the materiaTruin it would involve. I deny with passion that war can be a factor in progress. The generation of men to which I belong fbught in the World War from 1914 to 1918. They killed their fellow-men, but tbey destroyed, too, a whole world of moral and spiritual values, aud much that was worth-while in our civilisation, and if we cannot recapture those moral and spiritual values I despair of the future of mankind."=-M. Pierre Cot, Minister for Air in the Freneh Government. _j" '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 4
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