Show DEADLY researches inthe next great war it if that is ever allowed to occur science will like ilke some angry outraged deity so go tar far to destroy mankind itself the next war will ie be unlike anything aich thich has been called war in the past the time honored name ot of war would not properly apply to it it will pay scant attention to armies and navies or to the other para per nalla ot of war it will go straight tor for tile hie populations and tor for tho the immense urban aggregations which will be its ita sure target it will tight fight with nith new and tru unheard 0 of chemical and biological weapons it will cover the fair land and great cities with nith poison and disease germs it will saturate vast areas area with a deadly atmos atmosphere phera there will be no escape not even for the statesmen and the barmak ers and a pall of 0 death will rest over all kven even now the laboratories of three continents are busy with their deadly researches and in due course some lunatic will vill press the button and the flower of 0 the human race will bo be trapped and destroyed there is still a way of cf escape but it lies along the arduous path ot of disarmament surely sufficient has been said to show why we should without further delay take to that path gen jan christian smuts in ili 11 Y times |