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Smashed the League of Nations
luch such, high hopes were
An
in the Briand era. is that Britain, at last from her lethargy, is arming as never before whe ther for collective defence or for
Garrick Street, London, WC2 Just old-fashioned individual de
fence she does not yet know.
Without Germany and Italy, so
Notice To Contributors.
All_communications intended for it seems, the League is too weak publication should be addressed to to enforce peace. So Europe the Editor, and be accompanied by faces the paradox that the the Writer's Name and Address League must so many think not necessarily for insertion, but whom it is thought necessary to include the very dictators as a guarantee of good faith.
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restrain. This is the dilemma around which all the forthcom- ing discussion of "reform of the League will centre.
Meanwhile rearmament pro- ceeds, with terrific financial strain Economic hardship may
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1937. serve as an incentive to aggres-
THE POLISH
MANIFESTO
fi
sion, for discontent at home. tempts a search for glory abroad. It is foolish to think that money reserves are necessary to a war.
Marshal Smigly-Ricz's pro-carry on war but the approach Not only may, bankrupt nations claimed intention of establishing of bankruptcy may push them the totalitarian state system into war. This is, of course, al Poland may be viewed as taking ways a dangerous game and none Europe one further step towards the less so in times such as the disintegration of its ancient these. For waz means heavy culture, and as such, as pro taxation, which involves the ap- foundly disturbing. It is true propriation by the State of pri- that a virtual dictatorship has vate wealth and hence a social controlled the destinies of Poland revolution. It may lead also to for years past and that the adop other tion of the Italo-German model tions, as the last war did in Rus-
than economic revolu is a change of method rather sia, Austria, Germany, Turkey. than of system. But the dis- indeed, in these times war in tinction, however subtle, is none Europe may be regarded as itself the less important.
a form of revolution. Those who Marshal Pilsudsky's dictator-fear it because of the probable ship was of that benign type bombing of cities might well loosely termed "a benevolent au- fear it even more because of the tocracy." Smigly-Ricz is not likelihood that it would sweep content with the loyal support of away private wealth and destroy the Polish people. He would pro-what is now left of that capital- duce a machinelike and machine-istic middle-class society which made uniformity and the comfor a century has dominated and plete destruction of individuality guided Europe.
Poland's step cannot improve matters. It means principally
in thought and taste, a result It would be an error to imagine which can only be viewed with apprehension by those who still loosed by the last war are spent. that the revolutionary forces believe that Europe can, with They continue to-day and with wise statesmanship, be lifted the power to produce another clear of her present dangers. catastrophe. For the spread of totalitarianism cannot do other than hinder.
Europe's present tension, no- one attempts to deny, dates that the European culture, which from the disappearance from we call Western civilisation has Europe of German democracy, a
lost further ground. Germany direct result of the great world and Italy, which once were main- depression.
stays of it, have rejected it out- If American loans to Germany right. Faith in it elsewhere has
wavered
had not slowed down toward the end of 1928, if the general de Faced with this situation, the pression had been less sudden or future of Europe, which in 1926 less violent, if the German bank seemed so hopeful, is in 1987 crash of 1931 had not been pre generally regarded as dubious cipitated and prolonged by poli-indeed. For even if the war, tical antagonism, Stresemann which Mr. Churchill and Profes- might still be in spirit with Ger- sor Toynbee so strongly fear, man politics.
does not materialise, Europe will
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
It was because a universal and nevertheless remain divided be devastating economic crisis des tween democratic and totali- cended upon Europe, just when tarian nations a situation which its political discontents were is, many believe, the antithesis of coming to a head, that Europe to-day fears war. Rebellion lagainst the peace treaties was in- evitable But an economic breakdown, on the colossal scale of that which took place, was not DIG: "The British press first be inevitable Nor the peculiar nationalism of the Nazis. It people's life in the days of Queen gan to play a marked part in the was the coincidence of political Anne. In those early days they had ferment an economic collapse great writers and small circula- that produced the Pandora's box tions. Now we have large circula of woes
has opened upon tions. I am not quite sure how to Europe the last three years. finish
uence 18 that the Churchill an rapprochement
One
1926
that
Winston
so eagerly anticipated has been postponed for many PEACE: "Pacifism is to the true Another is that Mussolini, lover of peace what prohibition is to taking advantage of the lazy temperance. It is the mage of vir- optimism of Britain and of the tue distorted by heresy. The Very renewed fears of Germany felt Bey. Robert I Gannon, president of
but Fordham University.