7 JANUARY 1928, Page 15

In a year or eighteen months, public opinion will be

ready—especially if the United States and Russia arc repre- sented at the long-expected Conference, as they well may be—for a small limitation of armaments. After that the idea will grow that physical security is as unattainable in the body politic as it is in the hutrian body. It is not even an ideal, much less a possibility. But mural al security is some- thing which can be built up in the mkt& of men, it involves the acceptance of a certafn physical risk, but it is a Christian