Anti-Armaments movement.

• Author: Mintzer, Mike
• Position: Readers' Forum - Letter to the editor

* Regarding your April 2012 article, "U.S. Weapons Manufacturers Feeling the Wrath of Arms-Control Activists" (p. 1.8-21), if memory serves, this is the same drill we went through after World War I, and should be resisted by anyone with a modicum of intelligence and a knowledge of history.

We all should remember how effective the public anti-armaments efforts were, demonizing the armaments and munitions-makers, and leading to such fabulously "successful" peace agreements, eliminating war in the 20th century; as:

* The 1922 Washington Naval Limitation Treaty, which limited the number and size of warships that could he built, and resulting in Germany building battle cruisers and Japan building up their carrier fleet while the United States, France, and the United Kingdom limited their navies;

* The 1924 Geneva Protocol, which called for the pacific settlement of international disputes, such as Japan's "peace" efforts in Korea and China (1910 and 1932, respectively), Italy's in Ethiopia (1935), and Germany's in Austria...