WHY WAR?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] expect I ought to understand clearly how it is that unless we are very careful, or very lucky, we shall shortly be involved in war once more, but as I don't, I wonder if you would be good enough to expIaiti—in words of one syllable ? There can be few people in this country who want war, so failing aggression or unprovoked attack—neither of which at the present juncture would appear likely—why should we have one? Of whom and what are we afraid?—! am, Sir, &c. J. A. PRINGLE. Broken Hill, Horeham Road, Sussex.
[Briefly, though polysyllabically, the danger is that in the growing tension due to divisioni on the Continent, and in particular to the excessive nationalism manifested in Germany a gun may go off somewhere and the consequences reach anywhere—as in 1614.—En. The Spectator.]
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