DISEASE GERMS
COMBINED FIGHT URGED LONDON, September 7. . While diplomats are apprehensive about the- possibility of a European war, Sir Oliver Lodge told the Daily Mail at the opening of the British Association Conference at Leieecter, that the “next tremendous war will be against enemies visible only through a microscope, and the enemy will be germs of a- deadly disease.” “I believe ultimately that nations will learn not to fight among themselves, and will he f-or Ced to combine against th# common enemy of mankind. “We are not afraid of wild animals, but we have done little to combat invisible organisms, infinitely more dangerous than the most ferocious beasts. “Unhappily the scientist’s discoveries •arc frequently perverted to the destruction of human life. The blame lies on politicians and others, who must ensure that the inventions shall bo used for the benefit of mankind,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 7
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