“WAR INEVITABLE”
AMERICAN PROFESSORS’ VIEWS, WORLD CONFLICTS REVIEWED. (United Press Association- Bv Electric Telegraph—Copy righ t. ’ NEW YORK, December 28. Two Harvard} professors to-day presented to the American Association of Science what is claimed to be the first statistical study of war.” They added that there had been 902 wars from the year 500 B.C. to the year 1925.
These wars they charted by the use of complicated statistics, /recording the number of nations and of men involved in wars at various times in history, their lengths, and their casualties etc.
They produced a “use index” fer the last nine centuries. This ranged from 2.67 in the twelfth century to 13735.98 in the first quarter of the twentieth century; who re as the index for the nineteenth century was only 318.91. The conclusion drawn by the professors is that “war is inevitable.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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142“WAR INEVITABLE” Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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