EUROPE AND WAR
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—The reports relating to the alleged Franco-Soviet agreement last week presented an opportunity of studying the view-point of various European countries towards war. A wisdom and reasonableness, all too rarely encountered, was shown by a spokesman of the German Government when, as reported in the Daily Telegraph last Saturday, he stated that as regards the possibility that Germany would attack France, this eventuality was out of the question and did not merit consideration.
If statesmen all over Europe could only agree on that one point, that war is unworthy of consideration, could they not cease to consider its possibility ? And in consequence they would also be able to cease from making puerile, face-saving excuses for the re-birth of the race in armament building. -As it is, we are never for one moment allowed to forget war, in one way or another we are being made war-conscious the whole time, but until the attitude is universally adopted that war is unthinkable and does not even merit consideration there can be no hope of permanent peace.—Yours faithfully, 112 Hadley Road, New Barnet. U. M. Seim.
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