Speaking to the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Field-Marshal
Sir William Robertson said that though the reduction of armaments required to be treated with the utmost caution in Great Britain, he nevertheless held that however wicked, ambitious and unstable human nature might be, every man and woman ought energetically to support efforts to devise a more sensible way of composing international differences. No way could be worse than the futile methods upon which the nations had hitherto unsuccessfully relied. " That is the only conclusion I can reach," he said, "- after a military career covering exactly fifty years, and it is, at any rate, more in accordance with financial conditions than out-of-date platitude's about maintaining strong forces. If the futility of war were more insistently emphasized by political leaders the defence of the Empire would soon become a far easier and cheaper task than it is now."
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