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The

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1938.

IN SEARCH OF PEACE

Notification

in the

| Government Gazette that

latest

cer-

Life?

ROFESSOR BROAD,

PRO

of Cambridge, has written in. a recent

the number of

Hibbert Journal an article entitled "Should We Fight for Our Country in the Next War?”

At the end of the article he explodes a bombshell. Pacifiats, he avows, ought in the next war to commit suicide.

I quote the relevant pas- [sage:

"Thla," ie, suleide, "is the course which I should recom- mend to those of them who do Hot think that there is H 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 pas in your oven, if not less dendly. is far more merciful than that which you will encounter on the battlefield or in the streets of your own tourn if it should be bombed,"

The argument so far is an up- peal to prudence; the gas in

By Professor C. E. M. Joad

temporaries."

one's oven is pleasanter than the dishonour of most of his con- gas of the enemy. But an addi- tional reason is derived from

ethics.

"He may suspect," says Pro- fessor Broad, "that it is not alto- gether fitting that his honour should be rooted in the fortunate

The conclusion

seems to be totally wrong-headed, and the arguments by which it is sup- ported fallacious.

owes

WHEN a war comes, a two pacifist duties-a duty to society and a to duty to himself. His duty tain extraordinary regulations calculated to reduce any tension society is, in the first place, to

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The very

ment.

he

from

THE distinguish- ed pacifist, who inaugur a ted the Oxford "Won't Fight" motion, here view attacks the recently expressed

by the Cambridge philosopher, Pro- fessor Broad, that pacifists should

new international order.

it

For

a time the flooda of idealism run 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 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

Įvived, giving the Governor-in- lis talk of peace; well-authen-possesses to bring the war to an

Finally, the pacifist has a duty to himself. He sees a world Council very wide powers, and ticated stories of conversations end at the earliest possible mo-

which to his thinking has tem- other authorities all necessary between Dr. Oscar Trautmann,

porarily gone mad. Is that |freedom-in-meeting-or-counter-

No-good thing, he holds, cun - commit__suicide in the able German diplomat, and ever come of violence: there is,

any reason why-he-should-follow- acting any emergency, must not Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in then, no benefit which his coun-

the event of war. its example? He sees his coun- trymen consumed by hate and SET||4|1192193194198514348181539 be taken as indicating that the

which, it is supposed, the try can possibly derive

fear, straining every nerve to Far East erisis as it effects

prolonging the war. Yet pro- convictions. He holds in oppo- deprive of their lives other men Hongkong is any more pressing Japanese terms are discussed.longed it will undoubtedly be. sition to most of his fellow citi- whom they have never seen and many good zens that war between nations is with whom they have no quarrel. than it was a week or a month, Such reports will have the ten- For example, or. for that matter, six months dency to encourage South China judges hold the view that the always wrong, and should, at all

could have ended in rosts, be avoided. Details of these regula-in the belief that it will remain last war

1917 as a draw. Such a result Very well, then, he must also own? A man has a right to tions are published in this news outside the sphere of concen- would have been infinitely more hold that it is good that as many live, and the fact that his fellow- paper to-day. The moment that trated war operations such as conducive to the happiness of people as possible who hold this men are denying that right to Japanese and Chinese troops the North has experienced. Il mankind than the dictated peace view should continue to exist. one another is no reason why he

They should continue to exist should deny it to himself. exchanged shots in North China is known that Marshal Chiang of Versailles, the object of which seems to have been to rejected the last summer, the moment na. has

six-point

commit a crime which each of in order to preserve the tradition

As to the argument that the tional feeling was aroused, then Japanese peace offer, but that the victorious Allies had an of sanity and reason amid the

what Professor Broad calls "the the necessity for precautions does not mean there will not be equal interest in committing, mass hysteria which war invari- pacifist's safety is purchased by fortunate dishonour" of his fact and the result of which has been ably produces. arosc in this Colony. The compromise.

a legacy of hatred and unrest To the man who keeps his countrymen, it leaves my withers vigilance of the police force and that Dr. Trautmann is continu- which has kept Europe on head in wartime it cannot but completely unwrung. I'neither mediator tenterhooks for 18 years, led to seem that most of his fellow ask nor expect anyone to fight other authorities concerned, ing his efforts

me. I only wish they the generally well-restrained proves that there is room for the resurgence of Nazi Germany, citizens have taken leave, of for temper of the crowd and the readjustment, and may indicate and brought us to the verge of their senses.

another war.

In the last war it was declared caution of those who might be that there is a will to peace on

The least evil thing that war by respectable organs of opinion thought to dwell in some pre-both sides. It would not be can do is to produce a convic and believed by otherwise ren-

FOR it is the existence have been unnatural. China has suffered tion in all the belligerents that sonable persons that the Ger jointly responsible for the main-immensely; but Japan has suf-war can do no good thing. Now many were fiends who tortured men's willingness to use them tenance of the pence in Hong-fered too. Just how greatly we this conviction is most likely to babies and made meals out of in his alleged defence which, in 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 few and isolated; and author- It is certain that the six-point

SECONDLY, the pacifist them indignantly to the ground, birth my choice of countries into itics can take pride in the plan, ALR published by

must seek to mitigate while clergymen clamoured for which to be born, I should choose fact. It must be gratifying to Telegraph recently, could not the ferocity of the terms of the annihilation of enemy coun- a small undefended country like tries, and announced that "all Norway or Denmark, whore I everyone to know that the hos- have been accepted by Marshal pence.

appeals to religious feeling in should be comparatively secure pitality of this Colony has not Chiang no matter how badly he

Just as he objects to war be favour of peace will be suspected just because I should not be been abused, nor the power of wanted a truce. It would have cause he does not believe that of German origin."

"protected." the law been called upon to'plan cost him his reputation and the the best way to demonstrate the more than routine precautions trust of the country which his rightness of one's

cariousness here,

ад

kong. The instances where have no sure means of know- violence has occurred have been ing.

the

be born of a draw.

cause he does not

wouldn't.

of armaments and of

Is it unreasonable to demand cause in a

Believing that there ia no quarrel is to kill off as many of that, amid such an orgy of bel- for the safeguarding of foreign leadership has inspired. It is the opposite side as one can, so ligerent hysteria, such a fierce safety in arms, pacifiste have ad- terms feast of unreason, somebody Vocated disarmament, if neces sary by example, ever since the nationals and the restraining of safe to say he never even con- he objects to the peace the crowd. These new regula-sidered surrender: for on those which a so-called successful war should keep a cool head and a end of the last war. Should an

other war come, it will be bo- tions, which were in force dur-terms aurrender it would have enables the victor to dictate, be- respect for the truth.

believe that Secondly, he must be at hand cause of the nations' persistent ing the 1931 trouble, simply been indeed. What must be the one's superior virtue is to when the war is over, to make disregard of their counsel.

the most of the inevitable re- provide machinery for increas-disclosed at the Chiang-Traut-hit a man when he is down.

It is a little hard that we should now be told that ing the security of the pince.mann conference is a knowledge

Yet this is precisely what vic action. of the best terms Japan can

It is something of an histori- safety will only be ensured by They have no other significance. offer, and the worst terms China tors have invariably done.

In the third place, it is the cal accident--one of the most the willingness of others to fight The fact is that latent de-will accept. Somewhere be

tween them los compromise pacifist's duty to keep alight the tragic in the history of mankind for us, when in our view it is pre- velopments in the Sino-Japanese and peace which may be per- torch of his own beliefs. He is that the end of the last war cisely this willingness that en-

by hypothesis a man of strong did not lay the foundation of a dangers it. ooooood political sphere might well be manent.

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