[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sue—The striking article you
publish from the pen of Mr. J. L. Hammond, on the cruel economic injustice suffered by certain great peoples, must appeal to every lover of peace. As I pointed out in Can War Be Averted ? (1031) which examines all the relative facts in great detail, the World, is., largely monopolised by two nations—Britain and France, which between them control 19 million square miles, the useful land area of the world being about 36 million square miles. This while Germany and Italy, with between them 108 million people, have to live and work on only 300,000 square miles. Moreover, both France and Great Britain are in virtual decline, their birth-rates being below replacement rate. The English schools are emptying even while great
Stretches of empire remain empty. . .
The way to peace is plain enough, but will it be taken ? For answer, note the howls in Parliament when Mr. Eden proposed to give a strip of sand and a poor port to Abyssinia I It was just because I feared the issue that I ended my book on a note next to despair. The truth is that economic war is made by the " Haves " upon the " Have-Nots," a war as real as any made with guns, but more deadly because continuous, day by day, year by year. " Who denies the means of life.to men makes. war upon them."—Your obedient Royal Societies Club.
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