Prof. Brierly Explains Real Issue of Problem Discussing the legality of aerial bombing Dr. J. L. Brierly, Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford University, declared in a British Broadcasting Corporation talk last night, that however much combat ants in the early stages of a war might strive to observe conventions, the logic of the whole system of war inevitably led to the use of whatever weapons were available in the most efficient way possible for the achievement of the purpose of war.
Dr, Brierly explained the abortive efforts of the Disarmament Conference in 1923 to limit the use of the aeroplane in war, In fact there was one and only one effective way of preventing the distressing results of the aerial bomb and that was by abolishing the aeroplane as an offensive weapon. However much it might be desired to limit the bombing to military objectives, the proximity of non-combatants to the targets rendered it impossible to avoid involving them in the attacks.
Terrorism had been banned as a legitimate objective for any arms, yet in practice, as the object of war was to bring the enemy to abandon his resistance at the earliest possible moment, it might even be impossible to prevent that form of assault if the logic of the situation were studied.
The imposition of restrictions on the use of the aeroplane was hot necessarily useless. It had achieved something and might achieve more, but the real solution was the abolition of war as an instrument of policy.
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