INGE ANALYSES WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9

INGE ANALYSES WAR

EVE OF LEAGUE ASSEMBLY SERMON AT GENEVA (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Sunday. Dr. W. R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul’s, preached in the Geneva Cathedral on the eve of the assembly of the League of Nations. He said the three chief obstacles to the triumph of peace were: (1) The form national patriotism had taken in modern times. Patriotism was too noble an emotion for outright condemnation. It only needed to be directed. (2) Fear, and the causes of fear, which must be removed or, despite all treaties, war would again come. (3) The fact that a Government, recognising that its country was heading toward civil strife, might go to war as the only chance of averting internal disruption. The crux of the whole problem was: Could the League offer the nations security against a nation which chose to break the covenant? The “Daily Chronicle” says the possession of armaments is a stronger motive for war than any of Dean Inge’s three points. The Great War arose from the desire of the German militarists to use the world’s most wonderful w r ar-machine. So far as paper agreements are concerned, says the writer, the world since the armistice really has made great progress toward permanent peace. It is most ominous, however, that the armaments of Europe are still greater than they were before the war.