SIR,—If I read the news aright we are to have
no peace-time international security after all except against Germany and other nations outside the Big Five. If one of the Big Five should plan world domination whether by military or other means it could veto any action by its colleagues, and—may the devil take the hindmost.
Is this what we have been led to expect? It is a mistake which may lead to the competitive piling up of armaments, engender distrust and fear, and end in a result overwhelming in its tragedy for the ,whole worm.
Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus I —Yours, &c., J. K.
[The action which one of the Permanent Members of the Security Council can veto is collective action in the name of the International Organisation. There is nothing to prevent the other Permanent Members, or any other States, from uniting on their own account against the aggressor, as Britain and France did against Germany in 1939.—En., The Spectator.]
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