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Show Idle to Imagine General Disarmament Will Put End to All Warfare By DR. OSCAR JASZI, Oberlin College Professor. Too much stress is being laid on the limitation of armaments in the pursuit of world peace. Disarmament is a good thing, and is a step in the right direction. But disarmament alone will hardly be effective in an ace when great armies and navies can be built up, as was shown in the late war, within a few months. For our great capitalist states the building build-ing up of a great war machine is simply a question of proper organization, organiza-tion, and can be accomplished in an astonishingly short time. The next war will be one in which whole civilizations will be destroyed de-stroyed by perhaps a few thousand men working in laboratories, who will be able to carry on the most terrifying and awful conflict in the history of the world by the use of newly discovered biological and chemical facts. If there were a real desire for peace on the part of the great nations of the world thev would be entering into agreements to cease their efforts to develop in the laboratory terrible weapons of science for the destruction destruc-tion of their future enemies. |