DISARMAMENT PLEDGES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The point is being made that there is no tenable analogy between the Disarmament stipulations as relating to the Allied Powers and the Vanquished Nations.
As it strikes me, if there is to be set up any distinction between the two pledges, the one made voluntarily is more binding than the one made under compulsion.
And yet, while making this counterpoint, I am not un- mindful of the emotional background of France's position. But I maintain that it is a fatal mistake to tie that position to the provisions of a Treaty. Human nature is bound to assert itself and to break the fetters of any manufactured Treaty stipulations.
I have said it many times before and I now say it again, that there will be no peace, until the Treaties are purged from the crushing and humiliating features.
As they stand, the Treaties represent a peace to end peace. And Disarmament will only make war more accessible.— I are: Sir, &c.,
GABRIEL WELLS.
Carlton Mansion, 14 Pall Mali, S.W. 1.
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