| Show 1 I re resolved solved that I 1 would devote my life to the prevention of war by LORD THOMSON british ali air minister I 1 joined t the h e fabian society and the labor party because I 1 attended tho the versailles conference a brigadier general of the british army and saw face to face the utter incapacity folly and dishonesty of the politicians assembled there to dispose of the destinies of the world I 1 had been inthe in the army twenty six years but I 1 had never seen anything like the thick headedness of the versailles statesmen I 1 came away with tho conviction that this sort of thing 0 must not happen again I 1 resolved that I 1 would devote my life to the prevention of war this Thi snot not in spite of my being a soldier rather because I 1 am a soldier soldiers hate war the best anti militarists inobe in the world today are to be found among the officers who fought in the late war but ware war cannot annot be prevented by setting up mere agreements or institutions tut ions by organizing 0 an international debating society at geneva or anywhere else what we need most of all is treaties but a change of the international mind man fights because lie hs wants to it is this will to fight that we have to combat above alland all and we have to do it through ed education ti cation tai through rough what I 1 might call Fabian izing the Nv world orld it esthe futility of war even more than its immorality and wickedness that we must bring home to the masses so that they can bring it home to their rulers i |
