THE GLAMOUR OF WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1927, Page 4

THE GLAMOUR OF WAR

The early post-war weariness with everything to do with the conflict is passing rapidly away. There is a marked revival of retrospection. One school is engaged in the glorification of combat. and is urging the feverish increase of armaments and instilling a martial spirit m the young. Another, composed of mystics of various sorts, finds even in the pyramids of Egypt a prediction that Armageddon is yet to come, and will he with us during various not-(listnnt years. Yet these, alas! who seem to believe absoi'utely in their prophecies are for the most part pacifists who would turn gently the other cheek to an avenging enemy. let another school is found among the workmen of the world, who say they will refuse yet again either to hear or fo make arms, and who believe that—at least for one or two generations to ((ime—none of the great nations could compel their citizens hat k to Certain it is that war lias regained something of its glamour. During the past eighteen months authors, thorn riJ cal producers, and film makers have j discovered that war weariness is over. i mid that there is a large and growing ; public ready for a reconstruction of the j terrible years between HIM and 1918. ! One explanation of this is that a new

generation has grown tin which is asking to he reassured of the truth of veteran reminiscences; hut there is also proof that the veterans themselves are gradually forgetting the horors, and ure rekindling old dreams of martial glories.—“ The World To-day.”