To the Editor of the Nonrw-Ciuwa Darcy News!
SmI have been reading the letters on the subject of The Next War with interest, but us a more woman who has the average woman's hazy ideas and knowledge of world politics, and to be frank finds them pretty futile and boring, I find myself extremely puzzled and would seek enlightenment, The first thing that strikes me Is the futility of accepting the fact, apparently without protest, that," war "inevitable." Why is it inevitable, and why do we keep telling each other that It Is inevitable, and. print ing it in our newspapers, and. short, repeating it on every possible occasion, until as a natural result we shall hypnotism ourselves and every one else into the firm pellet that inevitable and, of course, than it is hot dimeult to imagine the outcome.
Perhaps the most puzzling and {idiotic aspect of the thing Is that nobody wants war. At least so it would appear. I would not mind betting that If you asked any man or woman In the street whether peasant, capitalist, diplomat, or mere. busi ness man "do you want wart" the answer would be an emphatic "No' Perhaps there are exceptions—the makers of ammunition for instance and such people who have an axe to grind, but they ore surely" in. the minority and even they must realize that any gain they might. achieve would be of very dubious value after the holocaust, "No, I cannot even bring myself to believe' that the makers of ammunition want If one is to believe their written and spoken word, none of the statesmen of Europe want war. Hitler says hho doesn't want war. Britain. cer= and few would ques-sincerity in this, 1 think, We pald too dearly for the last one, Doe; America? T think not. Does. Italy' Possibly, but she could do little alone jand_ unsupported, Who then ts it that wants war so much that it Is "inevitable"? Who fare the individuals or bodies who are so set on another world war that nothing can prevent it? And if there are such individuals or bodies, what do they hope to gain from it if as according to the generally expressed
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