6 JANUARY 1933, Page 18

[To the Editor of the SPEc-rsT0n.] Sims,—Major Yeats-Brown obviously wrote

his article, pub- lished in your issue of December 30th, as one who believes God's will to be paramount. In this all Christians will agree with him. God's will is described by St. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, as "good and acceptable and perfect." Does war assume, in the eyes` of Major Yeats-Brown, one of these attributes ? If- so, it is not easy to understand. why

(in paragraph I) he does not want war which he believes (in paragraph 6) to have been planned by Goa.. As to force providing a solution of difficulties, it is of interest to remember that that great soldier Field Marshal Sir William Robertson said : "War settles nothing."—! am, Sir, &c., - 5 South Park, Ilesham, Northumberland. L. R. HOGGE.