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"Some Accident May Happen."
FORECAST OF H. G. WELLS.
come
At the bottom of the whole of can we do?" Mr. Wells was next the trouble was a peculiar sort of asked; "and what can we do now bad thinking, and the cure was in the danger spots?" some sort of effort for changing
"I wish I knew," he answered.
the fundamentals of education, "I have nothing definite to sug- for it, he argued, it is to overtake rest.”
"What methods of education modern developmenta educational reconstruction
absolutely would Was
you auggest for the necessary, Let them then get schools?" çame from another ques- ahead with some sort of organisa-tioner.
tion that would check the wayward Time was going on, and Mr.. Peace workers from all parts of drift that was going on in the Wells pointed to the clock. "There's Great Britain gathered in
the world.
Ino short answer to that," he said. Livingstons Hall, Westminster, re-
Shock Troops for Peace.
To a suggestion that an effort cently to discuss "The Strategy of
The chairman, Dr. F. W. Nor-should be made to get personal Peace" at a conference organized wood, asked Mr. Wells what sort pledges against all war Mr. Wella by the National Council for the
of programme he would suggest anid: "I think that is a very ad- Prevention of War.
The human for their activities.
mirable programme. Professor Gilbert Murray, who
Mr. Welle replied that of course being is essentially a fighter, and presided at the opening session, there were those who, if some to turn the fighting spirit against suggested that there was need for country attacked us and refused war would be a fine thing." concord among the peace forces in arbitration, would support their Turning-Point Reached. the country. "Reformers are apt country if the country was Mr. Wickham Steed aald he to differ among themselves," he in the right. But now
was thought the peace movement in said, "and perhaps it is true that the time to organise them- Great Britain and elsewhere had paciflats are unusually pugna-selves definitely and for those reached a turning-point. cioua."...
whom he would call the shock "All arguments based on the The real danger of war would troops to say to the men in office, horrors of war have pretty nearly from the ordinary, lazy. "If you get us into war we don't reached the limit of their selfish elector who, when any play."
That would be an extra-effectiveness. They are no longer! crisis arose and when he was ask- ordinarily definite course for them biting; they begin to pall; they ed to make some sacrifice, wanted to take, saying, "I won't fight, and are not far from being boring. to know why it was necessary to I won't pay taxes."
think we want to get a great deal trouble about other nations In At the same time, ha sald, reply-more devilry into this peace cam- Asia and the Far East.
Mr. H. G. Wells expressed the half the young men in England,
ing to other questions, probably palgn."
He stressed the danger of under- view that in a few years' timo France and Germany under the estimating the enemy. there may be another war. It had nge of twenty-five, find a tremen- "I profor to take the Soviet been said that there would be
dous fascination in war. Half the system quite seriously," he said. twenty-five years' breathing space. peoples who went to see "Journey's "They mean what they say. They He did not believe there would be End" said "This fa life." A lot of are out to set up a new form of anything like that time.
the young
men' these days were civilisation and destroy the whole finding life rather dull, there was horror" of bourgeois middle-class not enough employment, business capitalist socioty. I am not cer- openings were not attractive, and tain that they are going to fall." he did not think those young men Their aim as pacifists, he added, were going to dislike the beginning should be not merely the preven of the next war.
But when it was tion of war, but the creation of over they would say "The old men peace, and this internationally and put us in it."
socially, depended upon the re- moval of suspicion and fear.
He had had, he said, some glimpses of the state of affairs in Italy, Germany, and France recent ly, and he thought an outbreak of war in the Near East was quite a possible thing in a few years Some sort of accident might hap pen even next year, or the year
after that.
"Bad Thinking."
And what were they going to do when the guns went off? He could not find out that they had anything ready at all. Their first duty, it seemed to him, was to have some sort of obstacle that would stand in the way of world war drift. Every War Office in Europe knew exactly what they were going to do: in the eventuality' of warri but ; the peace movement remained dor- mant.
What Pacifists Might Do. "If war breaks out, say, on the Albanian frontier next year, what
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station zB.W. on a wavelength of 865 metres:-
Professor Belisle Burns spoke of the necessity for international co- operation. He advocated travel "without stopping at hotels and looking at rulas." so that some- thing could be learned of tho modern world, about which very little was known.
"Teachers," he added, "very much want to be shown that there is a modern world that has come into existence since the Norman Conquest. Small boys running about Hampstead Heath with small rifles do not worry me. It is a joke. It is medieaval. The next war will be a gas war from the akles. We are in the spring-time of peace, and we must not expect the harvest to-morrow."
There was a larger question, whether it was possible to get rid of war altogether. Was there time coming when there would be no more war? Under certain con
time ditions he believed such a
4.30-7.15 p.m. (approx.)-Special could come
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7.15-7.45 p.m.-Operatic The economic rulers of one country were playing against another.tions, They were all infected with this Faust....Milari Symphony Orchestra obsession of national self-suff-La Gioconds, ciency.
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9 pm Weather Report, Local Time, etc.
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