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LET THE LEAGUE DEAL WITH SPAIN
Song In Syrup
A writer in the "Daily Ma cecently defended the crooner, maintaining that he is simply natural product of the age. The popular song of to day calls for a certain treatment, and only the crooner can give it. He wel- comed, it seems, in a million fami- He and the songs he sends
1937 murmuring across the four winds as this up-to date writer tands it, a delight in these omantic day to milions women. He is at once the lover they have lost and the lover they have never known. He
It is surprising how often one bringer of romance out of the hears the League criticised for sky, of love and laughter, to having failed to deaf satisfacthose who have once known all three to those who have lost all torily with a certain problem even three-to those who stand pre- when it is some other method cions little chance of ever know-
If than the League that has been ing any of these blessings."
that is so, the crooner is evident- employed to handle it.
ly to the modern world what The tragic happenings in Spain Byron was to Europe a hundred are a case in point. The League years ago or Sappho to the ear- has been blamed for not handling by Greeks. The main difference between Byron and his modern the matter when what has actual echo er caricature is that he ap ly happened is that the states pealed to people of a certai men of Europe have deliberately standard of education and cul decided to use some other machture, as well as to the passion- starved, while the crooner is mery than that of the League rapturously hailed as a godsend The motives prompting this de by a multitude who know little cision are understandable enough about music and less about art. It was eminently desirable that That this is not an unfair criti- cism is borne out by the "Daily both Germany and Italy should Mail" writer's admission that the co-operate and for the League to crooner "deadens reality." be entrusted with the Spanish- question was court failure on
that particular score Ever
Various other opinions des cribe the c
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any now who feel that had
guage the League been entrusted with "A weed the task,
any othe serves
the good for all
vention in is wild by Spanish affairs might have prov- ed more of a reality than actually been the case. The gue of Nations Umon in Britain has for some months been pressing for League in the event of the failure Non-Intervention Com
effectively.
test peak
civilised area,"
to his wo
Here is strong lan- riotously picturesque.
in
musical world"
Among
dons one de-
other
conficts with
conce
that, Frooners
ic at Har