ECONOMIC CAUSES OF WAR - [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—NO line of foreign policy, whether of Mr. Chamberlain or Mr. Eden, has a chance of real success until our Government has removed those defects in the monetary system which lie at the root of the economic causes of war and make it impossible for us to remove trade barriers or set Dictators a practical example of how countries can become prosperous without either colonial expansion or continuous rearmament in order to make work. It is essential, also, for the Government to achieve towards all foreign nations a policy so fair and generous that it need not be, and is not, ashamed to disclose and discuss it openly and fully.
Finally it is imperative that full use should be made of the radio- to maintain adequate touch with the peoples of other countries. It is fatal for the State to confine its international contacts to negotiations (often of a more or less secret char- acter) with statesmen and diplomats who may be very inferior in good sense and good feeling to the majority of their fellow- countrymen whose destinies they attempt to control.—Yours
truly, TAVISTOCK. Barrington House, Hayroards Heath, Sussex.
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