A WORLD AIR FORCE?
Sus,—The contributor to your issue of January 8th who poses this question seems to presuppose an entirely new organisation to police the world against aggressors after the war. But is this, with all its attendant difficulties, really necessary?
Surely the only practicable form of a League of Nations after the war will be, to begin with anyway, that group already existing known, as the United Nations! This is, in fact, the League of Nations in action in defence of the ideals of its covenant: it comprises all those nations who are resolutely against war as a permissible policy in righting international wrongs, and who are at the same time willing to fight to maintain that principle. Accordingly, the International Police Force must be founded on their fighting services, much reduced in size, of course, so that perhaps only the voluntary professional element would be needed. The aggressor nations, being completely disarmed, would have to contribute to the cost in other ways. Neutrality would be rated merely as the negative form of that policy which vociferously supports whichever appears at the moment to be the winning side, regardless of right and wrong.
This, it seems to me, would by-pass many of the difficulties envisaged.—! am, Sir, yours faithfully, F. D. MERRALLS. Lynchmere Green, Haslemere, Surrey.
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