Military Objectives
SIR.—Of a radio-station in Korea Mr. J. M. Spaight asks why this " military_objective " has not been bombed. I suggest a much more urgent need is to re-establish some standard of human decency in modern warfare, an attempt which would include some serious definition of military objectives and the refraining from indiscriminate slaughter and destruction. Experience shows that Governments and- military staffs cannot be trusted to draw such lines firmly, but a powerful public opinion could still be created by those who hold to spiritual or even humanist values. No serious definition of military objectives could include ordinary radio-stations; nor, for that matter, buildings in use as a political training-school, which were officially said to have been bombed a few weeks ago.—Yours faithfully,
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