The Washington times., 1923-07-30
LEADING
To. DISASTER;
SAYS DUKE
British NobIeman Declares
Pacitist Policies Expose .
Civilization to Attack.
By LUTHER A. HUSTON.
international News Service.

International News Service.
LONDON, May 2.-"International
sophists." who, in the form of a
League of. Nations, have set up a
brand new Tower of Babel at
Geneva" are leading the world to-
ward another great disaster. in
the opinion of the Duke of North
umoer'and. BY seeking to put a
cneck upon the fighting instincts
OF mankind the League of Nations
Is destroying, the duke asserts. the
most effective instrument for pre-
serving the civilization of the world.
oswald Mosley. member of the
BRUSH parliament. on the other
nano' contends that the League of
Nations lis a new fire-escape that
has been erected to give mankind
egress from the burning house Of
| civilization
'Will Tiger Die?"
The Duke and Mosley took op-
| posing sides in recent debate un-
der the auspices of the London
School of Economics. The subject
was will the Ape and the Tiger
Ever Die?" This rather novel sub
1ect was interpreted by Viscount
Ullswater, the chairman, as mean
ing. Can the fighting instincts of
man be effectually and intelligentIy
curbed?"
Opening the debate, the Duke
asserted emphatically that "repres.
sion of fighting instincts is as easy
as falling off log-and jdst as
silly" China, Egypt, ancient Rome
and other nations, the Duke argued,
curbed the fighting instincts of
their citizens and never amounted
to much afterward. Many of them
| Immediately became the prey of
conquerors whose fighting instincts
had attained full vigor.
Mine years ago." said the Duke,
''the British people had suppressed
their fighting instincts so far that
they were unprepared for the great
war which everyone knew was COM
ing. The result was the greatest
disaster which ever overwhelmed
civilization.
England Again Repressing.
mo sooner was the war over
than England proceeded to repress
| it's fighting instincts again. In
stead Of erecting statues to such
men as Roberts, Kitchener and
Haig, we preferred to erect monU-
ment to an American rebel named
! Washington. Then we proceeded
to hand over Ireland to a band "f
murderers, instead of hanging
! them, and that country rapidly is
sinking into barbarism.
Fighting instincts are one OF
the blessings of Providence be-
slowed upon a nation for its de-
Tense in an evil world"
Turning his guns on the league
of nations, the fiery duke charac-
terized it as that wretched debat-
ing society of Switzerland" The
league, he said, was the result Of
the superficial notion that wars
are caused by misunderstanding
that could be avoided by nations
actuated by angelic intentions. The
truth is, he declared, that wars are
caused by the lust for power and
denomination, by hatred, revenge and
jealousy, and these things are in
herent in human nature.
Must Maintain Power.
Peace" said the duke, lean
only be maintained by armed force,
by a nation making itself so strong
that no other nation will dare deny
it. Our ancestors, not being idiots,
saw this very clearly and therefore
acted on the principle called the
balance of power"
The British people, the duke pro-
claimed, have too much sense to
place much faith In the league of
nations, that monument of hypo-
crisy and futility." He also AT
tackled the 'delusion" that Germany
would long aCquiesce in the most
humiliating peace ever inflicted
upon any nation" and drew a pic
ture of a future surprise attack
by Germany that would be more
terrible than anything experienced
in the last year.
AS a parting shot at the league
the Duke declared it to be the
product of the "Machiavellian in
genuity Of those hyphenated Amer
leans who surrounded President
Wilson"
Mosley Defends League.
Mosley ridiculed the stand taken
by the Duke, declaring that the
latter was really the idealist on
the subject and he the realist.
The balance of power" Mosley
said, sis the best way of creating
war. The theory of maintaining
peace by preparing for war has
beeen proved a fallacy. We are
now trying new plan, exempt
fled by the League of Nations, of
preventing war where everything
else has failed The fight
ing instincts Of mankind can be
subdued, as other primitive emo
lions have been, and the world will
| be better for it,
The house Of civilization is now
on fire. We have put up a new
fire-escape. The Duke holds that
there is no precedent for using
a fire-escape and that it is safe
to sit quietly in the house and
let it burn"
Mosley admitted that the ma
ch1nery of the league is not yet
perfect, but commended that it was
being improved and that the
league was making progress.
Through it mankind is turning an
aneulshed face toward a new and
happier order of the world" he
declared.