Show ilia QUOTES U OTES ii COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters opinions expressed in the pa paragraphs ra graphs concurred in necessarily below are not liy by the editor 0 01 this newspaper WARS MEN MENACE A CE by VISCOUNT CECIL CECII THE HE nations in III america no DO loss less athan tor for than in europe ire are preparing Is nt at the more alor money further wa war r present time being spent for armies navies and air forces than ederr ever before in peacetime Nor moreover covet conr n great country in de defiance flance of f all treaty obligations has III launched a war of conquest against another and yet the contest which finished in 1018 1118 was a war to end war we are drifting toward another world catastrophe worse even than III the 0 last a S I 1 C can an nothing be done to prevent it certainly good intentions and pious aspirations are not enough no doubt the pence peace loving nations will wish to remain at peace but we found in 1914 androu and you found three years later that in spite of our wishes we were driven into war what happened then may nay will happen again unless we take adequate steps to prevent it |