THE PROSPECTS OF DISARMAMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sm,—The very interesting article by Mr. Yeats-Brown in your issue of January 7th contained a comparison of present- day Europe with Protoceratops andrewsi, the dinosaur "who was finally crushed under the weight of her own protection," and suggests that we may have to wait for 1929 to see the first successful Disarmament Conference.
- I think we are in danger of forgetting that one positive achievement in disarmament has been accomplished since the World War—the standard which was applied under the Peace Treaty of 1919 to Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The Petition which is to be presented to the Prime Minister early in February by the National Council for Pre- vention of War asks the British Government to take the lead in proposing the wider application of the 1919 standard, in regard to which all the Allied nations stand in an obligation. The Russian proposals have startled the world by their dramatic appeal for total disarmament. Can we not reply to this challenge by giving a lead with a practical programme based on the one model for disarmament which has been established since the War ended ?
I hope that many of your readers will respond by writing to 39 Victoria Street, S.W. 1, for copies pf the Petition and information as to the work of the Council.—I am, Sir, &c., RENNIE SMITH, Directing Secretary. National Council for Prevention of War, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, S. W. 1.
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