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THE MIGHTY ATOM
asingly for this one
the early yea
personality, more than that of any other tesman, impressed its lofty sincerity on the mer ory of those
Hong Kong, Friday, December 31, 1937 spectators who flocked to the
meetings. In 1927 he rest his post in the Cabinet, and though one may wish that he had still been there in the years Oscar Wilde once gave himself that followed, and especially in the credit for having done a hard 1931 and 1935, his action then day's work because this morn-was that of a true "Covenanter. ” ing I put in a comma and this Throughout failures and vicisit- afternoon I took it out again," ajudes at Geneva he has never version of the writer's task suffi-wavered in his long support of ciently exquisite to pour studied the League and all for which it contempt on the stalwart Trollo-should stand. And if any pian method of getting down to to charge him to day with lack and on with the job at a steady of "reshism" or a refusal to thousand words an hour. Still, cognize changing circumstances it does underline the possible he would no doubt reply in the importance and significance of words which he used in a that mighty atom the
debate in the Cambridge Union which has just been the subject in 1919- "The League of Nations of an interpellation in the French be idealistic, but it is a
Senate. where it was arguedty ference spiritual to mater- that the insertion of one that ial things was not intended in the text of:
the Wheat Bill might well cost A "National Scandal French farmers £3,000,000. The
vigilant senator might have add-It is curious that the House of ed to the force of his argument Lords should have a much grea by mentioning the well-known er sensibility to the loss of story which asserts that a pre- on the roads than is shown cisely similar error did in fact the House of Commons. And once deprive the United States evidence of it was given revenue of some very consider-Lord Newton moved his able gums until the mistake was which sought to provide rectified; in a clause admitting drivers guilty of manslaugh "all fruit trees free of duty and other serious offences should a wandering comma that settled forfeit their cars. The bill it itself down after the word self had not much to commend "fruit" is said to have opened ait, but its introduction and its huge door for the tax-free entry reception showed the feeling of of everything from melons to the House in face of what Lor mulberries. Certainly no writer Newton called a "state of who cares for the exact render- which has become 2 ing of his thought will treat scandal "It is utterly commas with anything but cau-sible," said Lord Midleton, tion and respect; a year or two believe that we can go on ago Lord Dunsany launched a by year increasing this vigorous comma campaign, mous loss of life on the though one forgets at the mo- and do so with our eyes oper ment whether he was protesting Lord Mottistone said that dur- against too many or too few. Ining the last eighteen 1 earlier Victorian days some print more civilians had been killed ers preserved a style of punctua- and wounded by motor-vehicles tion which sprinkled commas as on the roads in Britain than had freely as an April shower; the been killed and wounded in the result, though, perhaps, well- Spanish civil War. Britain meaning, could be, and, often, stands in the fantastic position was, irritating in the extreme that it has been safer for the On the other hand the absence civilian to live in Spain at war of an intended and appropriate than to live in Britain at peace. comma may make nonsense of
the text, the famous Piano for An Election Rumom- sale, the property of a lady with
carved legs" is the usual warn- Mr. Herbert Morrison, who is ing on that subject. The comma chairman of the Labour party's is a small creature but its power National Campaign Committee, is formidable.
spoke at Bath recently about "circumstantial rumours
of
an
Lord Cecil's Peace Prize early general election. The co
siderations with which The
committee whose duty it credited certain sections of Con- is to award each year the Nobel servative tacticians were
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Peace Prize has always chosen said, the possibility of an early
By
PAULA HARSCH, C.S.B.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
in the
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wisely, but never more so than slump in trade and a cond this year. Lord Cecil is no root of foreign affairs which made it and branch pacifist, but his faith plausible again to ask for a in the League of Nations, like monstration of the counte that of thousands of others, was unity. Mr. Morrison was
and still is faith in peaceful not to put undue value As early as 1916, when most this rumour, but if statesmen could see no farther prove to be true he than the front line, Lord Ceciled it in advance as a
ggested to the British Gov-tion of democracy
ment that it should work out tions.
He
for a League of Nations, maily hen, two years later, his to run
appoin
suggestion was remembered, it he who did much of