Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall.

  • McDougall, William, 1871-1938.
Date:
1924
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Credit: Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can Legion is taking the lead in this movement and gaining wide support. The Legion is re¬ ported in the press to have issued recently a proposal for an international air disarmament conference and to have received favorable re¬ plies from many influential persons, including “22 United States senators, 93 representatives, 15 Governors, 216 newspaper editors, 44 col¬ lege presidents and 82 other prominent citizens.” It is clear, therefore, that there is a large body of influential opinion well prepared to regard with favor the plan here proposed for the inter¬ national use of air-force to suppress the use of national air-forces and to secure the blessings of disarmament and peace throughout the world. ADDENDUM It should be laid down as a preliminary prin¬ ciple that the persons who should draft the clauses of the proposed international agreements would be held personally responsible for the clear cal possibilities which now exist in plan and on paper are translated into actual fact within, say, ten years, I believe that I have not over¬ stated the possibilities. . . . An airship leaving Japan could, within forty-eight hours, be destroying San Francisco. Similarly an air¬ ship leaving Europe could be attacking New York in less than forty hours from the time of her departure.’ ”