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1937
ective action. If Boran a period
and dismay,
need not remain so
If it really wishes to have done with war will find a way. The anti-war machinery that has fail- ed has not wholly failed. Men have learned something They know they must begin with their inner most purposes. As those are purified and spiritual- ised they will inevitably be ex- pressed in a world having no place for war And the present moral în so far as it is truly to moral revolt will find present- ly effectual means of checking the Editor, and be accompanied by the worst crimes of w
war. The good men generally wish to do Address, they find ways to do.
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This is the category in which but the latest British economic offer possibly falls. With important reservations, unfortunately, and so eleventh-hour as verging on the too late, even more unfor- tunately, Mr. Eden proclaimed the British Government's desire to contribute to world economic appeasement and offered to enter. into discussion with any Powers which may approach them for the reduction of particular trade. barriers in the Crown Colomes where these can be shown to place undue restrictions on inter- national trade. The offer is made in connection with the raw ma- as terials controversy and as far its goes will be welcomed. The possibility of an enthusiastic rès- Few there are who will fail to
ponse from, say, Germany, how- echo most of the sentiments ex-ever, is exceedingly remote, and pressed in Mr. Anthony Eden's no matter from what angle the eloquent speech at Geneva on issue is approached it is difficult Monday. War he condemned as to appreciate exactly how such a both wasteful and futile, con- limited contribution will contri- ferring no benefit to either vicbate importantly to the general tor or vanquished. To the events in the Far East, he referred with rehabilitation. The causes are too problem of international trade a sense of horror and regretted deep and fundamental for Japan's failure to make the al open doors to do more than slightest effort towards a settle-touch upon the fringes of world
BRITAIN'S LEAD AT GENEVA
As wel
colon-
ment by pacific means.
economic welfare. It is, how- have already said, few will chal-
ever, possible to be too critical. lenge any of his statements. Yet The main point of Mr. Eden's it is one of the paradoxes of mo- speech was hardly his offer. It Idern civilisation that while by!
far the greatest proportion of was submitted rather as an earn- est of British goodwill in her thinking men bitterly deplore avowed aim of lending all her en- war in all its forms, practical re- sistance is astoundingly smallergies to the task of general ap Never has the moral sense of men peasement, to extending the gen- revolted morë
strongly against eral scope of world trade, and to the crime of war, and never has raising the standard of living in jall corners of the globe. Made at the slaughter of civilians appear-
la time of crisis in human affairs, led to meet less effective rebuke, it would be astonishing if it than in this day. The League of failed completely to evoke res- Nations and treaties to outlaw
war express deep and active as- pirations. Yet Shanghai is add-
¡ponse.
ed to Madrid as Madrid was add-Dress Control At Oxford led to Addis Ababa. And Nanking
A
is threatened with addition to Among interesting survivals Guernica. Killing, more efficient of strict dress observance on for- Land more senseless than ever, mal occasions are the regula goes on apparently unchecked.tions for costume at the examin
Indeed, cynics are saying that ations in Oxford. In these days the world's hypocrisy is bearing of dressing as you like Oxford fruit, that condemning war and indeed stands like a rock against tolerating it, making high pro- any experiment. During ex- fessions and forgetting them, aminations men still have to signing treaties and ignoring wear the black coat and white them, only deadens conscience dress-tie as of old. Jand lessens the moral resistance May, more The girl fresh
to war's
new horrors. They say from school, who is going up for the world is becoming "condi
"Responsions finds in her tioned" to violence even as the
of instructions the command children who continue to play
oling walls of that women candidates among the shell-riddled Chapei.
wea
tie blac must crouse, the ur and black
hust blouse with black black stockings, Contempt of
dividual wa pes that the co court, with the terror of expul science of men will be made ef- sion from the examination, evid- fectual in the stopping of strife. He asks himself, "How long can men think one way and act other 2 And he knows that cannot perform any such fest even for
nt. The six the
ghts and the heart, will find
ently carries with it a sanction not worth the risk, and so far in- "the home of lost fattempt to impress
stinct in the realm of
fif only for a few pears to have been