DISARMAMENT: SIX MONTHS' HARVEST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May one who has tried to further the cause of disarma- ment on all possible occasions thank you for your article " Disarmament : Six Months' Harvest," in your issue of July 30th?
Many of us are feeling quite unable to vamp up the pious gratitude expected of us by our statesmen, for what, with you, we regard the exceedingly exiguous resolution which represents the result of six months' labour at Geneva. Are we expected to say "For what we have received may the Lord make us truly thankful"? Or "For what we are about to, or hope to receive, or may conceivably receive," when the Conference reassembles ? No sensible person can accept the interim results or face the future of the Geneva Conference without grave anxiety. Is it not about time that our statesmen displayed some constructive leadership instead of giving lip service to the Hoover plan, and then refusing all its essential features ? We are asked to be content with the phrase "To be continued in our next But what will be continued ? Vacillation and acceptance of far less than the second best ? You are quite right when you say the Government completely misjudges the spirit of the country. At any rate, they are far behind all intelligent public opinion.—! am, Sir, &c.,
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