THE VOICE OF YOUTH
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sitt,----We read a few days ago the report of the meeting of the League of Nations Union Executive Committee in which three gentlemen—Professor Gilbert Murray, Lord Cecil, and Sir George Paish—secured the passing of a resolution demand-
ing military sanctions against Italy. We find, on reference to the usual sources of information, that the combined age of these three gentlemen is no less than two hundred and ten years. It is, therefore, safe to say that none of them would be called upon to serve in the war which they risk. On the other hand, there is not a boy amongst those of us who send you this.letter who would not be immediately required to offer his life in the war, for, although we shall not be counted worthy of having a vote for three more years, we have already reached the age at which schoolboys were conscripted in the last war, and will be in the next. Professor Gilbert Murray has been good enough to offer some millions of us already.
. May we point out with the modesty becoming voteless victims that when we are ordered as soldiers to drop bombs, falling alike on the innocent and guilty, regardless of sex or age, or to drive bayonets into the vulnerable parts of the bodies of the Youth of other nations (and incidentally to submit to -these horrors ourselves) it will mean nothing to us that this is tailed it League war ? What was the last one called ? Was it not a War to end war ?
Is it unbecoming for us to suggest that our point of view should not be wholly overlooked by our venerable leaders who are so eager against dictatorships ?—Yours sincerely, THE SIXTH FORM OF REMBRIDGE SCHOOL.
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