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Show SMUTS DECLARES NATIONS MAD Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, premier of South Africa, Nations is an advance on the Cov-says Cov-says the Charter of the United enant of the League of Nations, because instead of being built on hope and goodwill, "it has a solid core of enforcement power." The South African statesman says this "is a very dangerous world" and that nobody knows what "the new growths of power in the world are going to breed." When asked by newspaper men who the enemy might be now that Germany was defeated and Japan was on the way to being conquered, conquer-ed, Gen. Smuts replied: "Don't ask who. Nobody knows. It may be one of ourselves. Our civilization civiliza-tion is only a veneer. Nations can get mad, like individuals." These observations may answer th equestion that come from pacifists paci-fists and sentimentalists who insist that if the nations prepare for war, they name their enemies in advance. This is impossible but unless the earth is entering a new era which we all hope has come, the future will bring new threats to the freedom of peoples and the possibility of future war cannot be avoided by intelligent nations. |