PACIFISM AND REARMAMENT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Leyton Richards writes that "the true alternative to frenzied preparation for war is constructive effort for peace," and suggests that your correspondent and I favour the former and discountenance the latter. But I humbly submit that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Eden have shown every disposition for a constructive effort for peace, and that their military policy cannot be truthfully described as " frenzied preparation for war," but rather as calm preparation for defence. If the pacifists, instead of culling for submission to aggression would point out how foreign Powers can be persuaded to enter upon general disarmament, they would be doing better service. Sir Samuel lloare's Geneva speech indicated a line of policy which seemed perfect, but met with little response from the Great Powers. This country is willing to pay a great price for general pacification, but not I hope the price of submission to the aggressor. —Yours, &c., CHAS. WRIGHT,
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