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Hongkong Telegraph.
THESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1938.
IF
WAR CAME
Should The Pacifist Take His Life?
ROFESSOR BROAD, of Cambridge, has written in a
recent
Hibbert
number of the Wournal un article entitled "Should We Fight for Our Country in the Next War?"
At the end of the article he explodes a bombshell. Pacifists, he ayows, ought in the next war to commit suicide.
I quote the relevant pas- sage:
"This," ie, suicide, "is the course which I should recom- mend to these of them who do not think that there is an overwhelming obligation not. to take one's own life. The next life, if there be one, must be bad indeed if it is worse than this life will be in time of war, and the gas in your oven, if not less deadly. is far more merciful than that which you will encounter on the battleßeld or in the streets. of your own town if it should he bombed."
The argument so far is an ap- peal to prudence; the gas in IN SEARCH
one's oven is pleasanter than the gas of the enemy. OF PEACE
tional Notification in
latest ethics. The
Government Gazette that
cer-
www.
C. E. M. Joad
By Professor C. E. M.
dishonour of most of his con- But an addi- teniporaries." reason is derived from
The conclusion seems to be totally wrong-headed, and the arguments by which it is sup-
Owes
two
"He may suspect," says Pro- ported fallacious. tain extraordinary regulations fessor Broad, "that it is not nito- |for Hongkong have been re-gether fitting that his honour vived, giving the Governor-in-should be rooted in the fortunate |Council very wide powers, und other authorities all necessary Le freedom in meeting or counter- acting any emergency_must_not_ be taken as indicating that the Far East crisis as it effects Hongkong is any more pressing than it was a week or a month,
WHEN a war comes, a
pacifist duties-a duly to society and a duty to himself, His duty to 13 talk of peace; well-authen-society is, in the first place, to whatever influence he ticated stories of conversations use
possessos to bring_the_war_to an
For example, many
THE distinguish-
ed pacifist, who inaugur a ted the Oxford "Won't Fight" motion, here attacks the view recently expressed by the Cambridge philosopher, Pro-
new international order. For a time the floods of idealism ran high; men were sick of war and crying "Never again!” were in a mood to set up machinery to make the repetition impossible.
The mood has evaporated, but it may recur. It is indeed doubtful whether civilisation. will survive the next war, but, if it does, mankind cannot afford to miss the tide of the next. peace. It is the business of the pacifist to be at hand to ensure that it is caught.
Is that any reason why he should deprive himself of his live, and the fact that his fellow- own? A man has a right to
men are denying that right to one another is no reason why he should deny it to himself.
between Dr. Oscar Trautmann; end at the earliest possible mo- fessor Broad, that Finally the pacifist-has a duty- to himself. He wees a world the able German diplomat, and ment.
pacifists should
which to his thinking has tem- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in
that porarily gone mad. Is No good thing, he holds, can commit suicide in
any reason why he should follow which, it is supposed, the ever come of violence: there is,
the event of war.
its example? He sees his coun- then, no benefit which his coun- Japanese terms are discussed. try can possibly derive from
trymen consumed by hate and or. for that matter, six months Such reports will have the ten-prolonging the war. Yet pro-
foar, straining every nerve to convictions. He holds in opp deprive of their lives other men ago. Details of these regula-dency to encourage South China longed it will undoubtedly be. sition to most of his fellow citi- whom they have never seen and |tions are published in this news-in the belief that it will remain
good zens that war between nations is with whom they have no quarrel. paper to-day. The moment that outside the sphere of concen-judges hold the view that the always wrong, and should, at all Japanese and Chinese troopstrated war operations such as last war could have ended in costs, be avoided.
1917 as a draw. Such a result exchanged shots in North China the North has experienced. It would have been infinitely more hold that it is good that as many Very well, then, he must also is known that Marshal Chiang conducive last
to the happiness of summer, the moment na-
people as possible who hold this has rejected the six-point mankind than the dictated peace view should continue to exist. tional feeling was aroused, then
They should continue to exist Japanese peace offer, but that of Versailles, the object of the necessity for precautions
which seems to have been to does not mean there will not be commit a crime which each, of in order to preserve the tradition arose in this Colony. The compromise. The very
fact the victorious, Allies had an of sanity and reason amid the vigilance of the police force and that Dr. Trautmann is continu- equal interest in committing, mass hysteria, which war invari pacifist's safety is purchased by
and the result of which has been ably produces. other authorities concerned, ing his efforta ብጻ mediator a legacy of hatred and unrest To the minn who keeps his countrymen, it leaves my withers the generally well-restrained proves that there is room for which has kept Europe on head in wartime it cannot but completely unwrung, I neither temper of the crowd and the readjustment, and may indicate tenterhooks for 18 years, led to see that most of his fellow ask nor expect anyone to fight
the resurgence of Nazi Germany, citizens have taken leave of for me. I only wish caution of those who might be that there is a will to peace on and brought us to the verge of their senses. thought to dwell in some pre-[both sides. I would not be another war. cariousness here.
In the last war it was declared have been unnatural, China has suffered
The least evil thing that war by respectable organs of opinion jointly responsible for the main-immensely; but Japan has suf- can do is to produce a convic and believed by otherwise rea- tenance of the peace in Hong-fered too. Just how greatly wetion in all the belligerents that sonable persons that the Ger- kong. The instances where have no sure means of know-war can do no good thing. Now mans were fiends who tortured men's willingness to use them this conviction in most likely to babies and made meals out of in his alleged defence which, in violence has occurred have been fing,
|be born of a draw.
.
few and isolated; und author- It is certain that the six-point itles can take pride in the
fact. It must be gratifying to
plan, as published by the Telegraph recently, could not
been abused, nor the power of wanted a truce. It would have peace.
As to the argument that the
what Professor Broad calls "the fortunate dishonour" of his
wouldn't.
they
FOR it is the existence
of armaments and of
Believing that there is no
the corpses of their dead; noble the pacifist's view, has placed lords, discovering that they the safety of all of us in were inadvertently dining off plates made in Germany, dashed joepardy. If, wishing to die in my bed, I were given before SECONDLY, the pacifist them indignantly to the ground, birth my choice of countries into everyono to know that the hos-[have been accepted by Marshal
must seek to mitigate while clergymen clamoured for which to be born, I should choose pitality of this Colony has not Chiang no matter how badly he the ferocity of the terms of the annihilation of enemy coun: a small undefended country like tries, and announced that "all Norway or Denmark, where I appeals to religious feeling in should be comparatively secure. the law been called upon to plan cost him his reputation and the Just as he objects, to war be favour of peace will be suspected just because I should not be more than routine precautions trust of the country which his cause he does not believe that of German origin.”
"protected." for the safeguarding of foreign leadership has inspired. It is the best way to demonstrate the
rightness of one's cause in a Is it unreasonable to demand nationals and the restraining of safe to say he never even con-quarrel is to kill off as many of that, amid such an orgy of bel- safety in arms, pacifists have ad- the crowd. These new regula-sidered surrender: for on those the opposite side as one can, so ligerent hysteria, much a fierce vocated disarmament, it neces tions, which were in force dur-terms surrender it would have he objects to the peace terms feast of unreason, somebody sary by example, ever since the which a so-called successful war should keep a cool head and a end of the last war. Should an- ing the 1931 trouble, simply been indeed. What must be
enables the victor to dictate, be- respect for the truth.
other war come, it will be be- provide machinery for increas-disclosed at the Chiung-Traut-cause he does not believe that
Secondly, he must be at hand cause of the nations' persistent ing the security of the place.mann conference is a knowledge the one's superior virtue is to when the war is over, to make disregard of their counsel. They have no other significance. of the best terms Japan can hit a man when he is down.
the most of the inevitable re- It is a little hard that wo The fact is that latest de-offer, and the worst terms China Yet this is precisely what vic- action.
should now be told that our velopments in the Sino-Japanese will accept.
be-tors have invariably done.
It is something of an histori- safety will only be ensured by In the third place, it is the cal accident-one of the most the willingness of others to fight political sphere might well between them lies compromise→→ calculated to reduce any tension'and peace which may be per-torch of his own beliefs. He is that the end of the last war cisely this willingness that ens
pacifist's duty to keep alight the tragic in the history of mankind for us, when in our view it is pre---
existing in Hongkong. Thore manent.
by hypothesis a man of strong did not lay the foundation of a dangers' it.
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