OUTLAWRY OF WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 109, 29 July 1927, Page 9

OUTLAWRY OF WAR

DEMAND OF PACIFIC CONFERENCE CHARGE BY DEAN INGE “WRONG IS WITH CIVILISATION” By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. A DEMAND for the outlawry of war has been made simultaneously M in two different places, and from two very different sources. The conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu unanimously approved of a proposal that Japan and America should outlaw war with each other by means of a treaty, while Dean Inge, penetrating more deeply into the causes of war, contends that the wrong is with civilisation as a whole, if it can, in any circumstances, return deliberately to the worst traditions of savagery. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright.

HONOLULU, Wednesday. The delegates to the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations to-day gave their unanimous approval to a proposal that Japan and America should outlaw war between each other. The delegates from these two countries as well as those from Britain and Canada urged that a draft pact similar to the Treaty of Locarno should be made as a guarantee for future peace in the Pacific. Mr. F. W. Eggleston, Attorney-Gen-eral, Victoria, said such a treaty should embody a disarmament clause. Mr. Eggleston said he believed disarmament could be considered a regional problem. In the Pacific the distances between the various countries was so great that the area was different from other parts of the world. Professor H. Duncan Hall, formerly of Sydney, said they were deluding themselves in saying there was no possibility of war in the Pacific. The seeds of such a war were there, as they were in Europe. It was time the machinery for peace was created. America, which was the greatest Power in the Pacific, would be interested if a conflict occurred there, as she was not a member of the League of Nations. The existing Four-Power Pact would be a very weak argument for the settlement of a Pacific conflict. Sir Arthur Currie, principal of the McGill University, Montreal, endorsed the plan on behalf of Canada. The American delegates were less favourable to the proposed treaty. Mr. Stanley Hornbeck, a vice-presi dent of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, said there was no necessity for such a treaty. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of the American National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, said other treaties must precede the one proposed.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.

GROSS SAVAGERY DEAN INGE'S UTTERANCE

A WRONG CIVILISATION | By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. ! In an arresting article in the “Evening Standard” on the Royal Air Force | manoeuvres, Dean Inge says: I “It is war with the gloves off. lam | amazed at the ready acquiescence of | the civilised world in the appalling belief that the next war will see the promiscuous massacre of non-com-batant men, women and children. ‘There is something radically wrong with a civilisation which can thus deliberately return to the worst traditions of savagery. It is retrogression to a point far behind the Greeks and ' Romans. “We have to go back to the Book of Joshua for anything approaching the horrors which responsible statesmen say we must expect in the next war.” Referring to the causes of wars the Dean says: “We must remember that there is one diabolical Government, that of Russia, which would not shrink from the massacre of threequarters of the population of Europe, if the remaining quarter could be subjected to the miseries it has inflicted on its own people. “The bitter truth must be spoken. Until this nest of hornets has been smoked out, disarmament in Europe will be impossible. “Italy is said to be a menace to peace, but in my opinion her Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, is only indulging in the dangerous game of sabre-rattling.’’ —A. and N.Z.