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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1933, Page 4

Lord Raglan declared at a meeting of the Society of Friends in London that disarmament as proposed by politicians was a quack remedy for war. He challenged anyone to produce a case where armaments, had caused a war or lack of armaments had prevented a war. Disarmament would come when war-mindedness had disappeared, and not before. Since education had made very little progress in the direction of mak'ing people peaceful, there would have to be considerable, changes in its theory and practice. We should have to revise religious teaching, since that at present involved holding up to the very young as patterns of morality such monsters of cruelty as Moses, Joshua, Samuel and David, whose atrocities, translated into plain English, exceeded anything that was alleged against out enemies in the last war. There were pacifists who proposed to get over difficulties "byi handing all armaments to the League of Nations. Once the whole world was included, and everyone disarmed, one man would be as good as another, and Java, with its 35,000,000 inhabitants, would be entitled to the same representation at Geneva as England. The representatives of China and India might combine and gain control of the League, and they could then abolish Western civilisation and abolish Christianity. It was by no means certain that they would not do it. Our next onslaught must be on nationalism in all its forms, but particularly in the form in which people, and especially children, were taught to believe that,' because they happened to have been horn in some particular area, they were superior to those born elsewhere.