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Two days later an leading English journal brought me up with a round turn. It seemed to shout at me, "Physician, heal thyself!" It quoted approvingly a phrase recently written by Vis- count Hardinge of Penshurst in a letter decrying the League of Na- tions: "The problem is now not to make the world safe for democracy, but to make the co-existence of de- mocracies and dictatorships safe for the world.” And this journal concluded:
efinitely
UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER
a hard-bitten diplomatist of the mocracies? Is it not founded on the paredness for international slaugh- old school For years before the very principles which dictatorships ter may permit and, each from its own patch of earth, set its feet World War he was Permanent Un- most emphatically reject?
on the path that leads through der Secretary to the British For
So I came back to the difference bankruptcy to destruction. eign Office, and in this capacity used to ace
mpany King Edward of the things people take for grant-
takes for If which Heaven forfend rld as it was before wer a cynic, I might be moved to VII on his travels. After the war, ed. Lord
Paris, be granted the
younger men mirth by seeing the very journal as British Arabassador was a member of the “AmbassaTM 1914.
the contrary, en- which on August 4, quoted Lord Gors Conference which replaced have,
kground. They Hardinge with approval, hoist with the Supreme Council of the Allied tirely po
ing of the pre-war world, its own petard on August 10, when and Associated Powers. There he knew was partly, if not chiefly, respon- and were still in their teens when it learned of the impending expul- sible for the "settlement of the the war ended. Of the ideals, striv- sion from Germany of its very re-
By Wickham Steed
(in the "Christian Science Monitor")
generate Berlin correspondent. Then it exclaimed that this arbitr- ary act would merely confirm in their opinion those people in this and other countries who consider standards that National Socialist
do not accord with the usual cour-
and would be a serious setback to tesies of civilised international life, those who are working for an im- provement of Anglo German rela- tions.
"Let us see whether it is no possible to extend the sound Bri-Corfu incident of 1923, which took ings, and passionate faith of the tish principle of working from the the wind out of the sails of the men whom the war "regenerated practical to the ideal and, eschew- budding League of Nations, en--to use a favourite expression of ing all attempts to lay a founda- abled Mussolini to "get away with one of them, President Edoard of Czechoslovakia-they tion-stone in the skies, build mod the iniquitous bombardment of Benes estly upward from any patch of Corfu, and saved Fascist Italy from know only what they have heard
Flave our post- earth that seems suitable for the having to capitulate to the League from cynics or deduced from fail-
ures to translate war ideals into been taking wrong things for g edifice we want to see erected-al-
It is easy to understand why a peace practice. So they feel an in- ed? Can they be right in assuming ways bearing mind that it may
League of Nations inspired by stinctive affinity with pre-war that tolerance and aggressive in- afterward have to be enlarged, tered, or demolished in favour of Woodrow Wilson's ideal of making minds which take it for granted tolerance, systems of freedom and the world "safe for democracy" that the nations can never be man- systems of unfreedom, can live should be repugnant to this diplo aged on other lines than those cheek by jowl, and that Anglo-Ger matic veteran. But why should a which landed the world in the im- man relations, in particular, can be rubbed my eyes. Is understand leading British journal, written by mense disaster of 1914. ing, or tolerant co xistence pos- younger pens, quote with approval
new one
THE
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
to drive the Ja
WING to the prophecy of a mild they threaten
winter at Home, many plumbers panese across the river are disposing of their cars.
According to the latest advices! from Shanghai it is asserted that the Japanese have been pushed back along a front of 15 miles on a total
Crime is a social complaint which can be cured, says a judge. He pro-front of 25 miles. bably believes in "time," the great healer.
Of Course
"Japan's activities in Chin
We shrewdly suspect that both the Chinese and Japanese spokesmen have been keeping something hid- !den from us.
Says "In Parenthesis,
ing of a self-defensive nature, do North China Daily News.
not form a violation of the Kellogg
the
Little Andrey blew in the other ates and the Nine Power Pacts high of-day following one of Izzy's ficials of the Foreign Ministry indiver in Pootung. cated to day gram from Tokl
It is not generally known that this self-defensive action by Japan was dictated by fear that China was pre- paring to invade that country.
The Tale Of Cock And Bull
And where have you been now?” we asked anticipating she had been doing something she didn't ought.
"T've been on the flagship, dearie," she replied, brushing her hair back in a nonchalant manner.
"Whatever for?"
"Just looking things over, don't you know? As a matter of fact was on board when they bombard- ed Pooting"
"Really That wasn't a good show. They hidn't seem to be rep at all well?”
Neither
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fire control off
laid his abacus
Laugh?
improved by a British refusal i stand up for the principles which the persecuted German Churches are heroically defending? If they These younger regenerates do are right, there are certainly some not say, in so many words, that the things I do not understand. I take principle of Abraham Tâncoln and other things for granted.
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