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Show POISON GAS AS A WEAPON Urging the necessity of Internauon ( al agreements to outlaw hemlcal war-1 fare, a writer says: 'In considering chemical warfare. there Is only one vital fact lo remem j lber: that it not only constitutes thei most insidious and deadly method ot : aggression yet contrived by the inge-j 'nuity of man, but that it opens up possibilities of destruction that mayi 'menace not only individual natious.i but the human race Itself To resort! to chemical warfare heruuse of its (economy or because of its usclulm ss for defensive purposes Is like supply ling one's home with dynamite bombs : I I because they may be effective In combating com-bating burglars. Yet, in the absence i 'of some sort of international coneert. : the nations are certain to develop chemical weanons rerardless of th lact that the net result io all the na ! lions may be little short of suicidal.' When the war closed. America had developed a gas which, It was claimed, j was bo destructive that the people of Berlin could have been put to death with only a small fraction of the gas which had been manufactured Th' poison would penetrate the gas masko and the clothes of the soldiers and eat out the life of the men in the trenches. It is only fair to presume that, had the war gone on, the Germans would have discovered an equally poisonous gas. This all goes to prove how dangerous dan-gerous 11 is lo allow nations to fight with poison gas. In attempting to gain a mastery In this way, whole nations na-tions may be wiped out. |