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there remains a demand that this responsibility be shared by the great financial and commercial interests whose profits in the past have not always allowed the purest and highest concepts of patriotism to guide their policies.
The programme of economic appeasement enunciated by Mr. Cordell Hull may yet outstrip the disaster-bent course of national self-sufficiency-in which Italy's conquest of Ethiopia and Japan's invasion of China are only early milestones. On the other hand,
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1938. it may be necessary for those
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countries with democratic ideals, respect for treaties, and hope for a world system of ordered security to stand together against attempts to exercise might be- The quite remarkable response fore right can prevail.
the interna- In which case it should be re- to the initiative of tional peace campaign organisers membered that of the combina more than justifies the declaration of nations now seeming to tion of Dr. Wellington Koo that threaten world order, not one has China has reason to be greatly in itself the financial or natural heartened: The attack on China resources to prepare for a victor- more lous war against the "have" has been in progress for
third powers. The democracies are than
seven months, Power has felt itself duty bound continuing, however, to supply "moral those resources, even while they to do more than exert pressure upon Japan," and yet, themselves arm against the out- in spite the discouragement come of such a course. which might be expected to arise Naturally such a process is al- in consequence of official apathy, ways and inevitably operative in nay, clear determination to evade a degree among nations living in Trade and economic obligations implied in treaties, anarchy. outraged public opinion is suffi- aids must be exchanged in ciently vigorous and militant to interdependent world. Indeed, by take the issue out of the hands such exchange of mutual help- of governments and campaign fulness, peace may be cemented. for world wide voluntary imposi-But there is a point at which the tion of sanctions. Whether the dual policy of preparing to fight effect is great or small, and un-if need be and at the same time enemy animity merely among the doc-equipping the potential kers of the world in the adoption for the fray becomes inconsistent of tactics similar to those of the with the peaceable aims which at Southampton stevedores would other times it serves. be enough to shake Japanese trade to its foundations and dry
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up the source of Japanese muni- An English Kilt? tions imports, there is also the strength of the moral effect
The Aberdeen branch of Tokyo to be considered. It is Kilt Society does not approve the not difficult to believe that Prince wearing of the kilt by women Konoye and his colleagues are and has decided not to admit wo- more likely to be impressed by men to membership of the society. the character of the London Opinions appear to differ as to activities of the week-end than the bearing of historical prece- they have been by the platitudin-dent on the women's claims. uas resolutions of the League of Though this aspect of the ques- Nations and the more-in-sorrow tion is far beyond the ken of the than-in-anger declarations of the ordinary non-Scot, there is an- United States.
other point of view that he may Speak- Lord Cecil's campaign, too, feel qualified to put. may remind the arming democra-ing from experience, he might cies what they seem to be for-suggest that men, alone, have getting, namely, that the situa- really sound practical reasons for tion to which they are preparing adopting the kilt. For what is to direct cannon muzzles is one their only alternative? The trou- in which the strategy of economic ser.
action.
name,
action could be applied with as And what happens to the trou- decisive effect. The danger of military and naval preparedness ser? It bags at the knee. Slow- ly, perhaps, but inevitably, it is always that it may divert at departs from the fashionable line tention from the possibility of of rectitude, and develops along checking aggression through col the lines of least resistance. Let lective economic
The the wearer but sit for a moment, democracies may let go by deand forget to hitch it about the fault the prime strategic ad-knee, and he is appalled at once vantage which is now theirs by by the shape of things to come. virtue of present circumstances Consider, too, his plight in wet of world finance and raw material weather, with that expanse of supplies.
undefended territory between Much of the vague disquiet knee and ankle; for the mackin- certain sections of the American tosh is as Scottish as its public felt because of the Ad-and will be responsible for noth- ministration's refusal to apply ing that comes much lower than
to the Neutrality Act the Far the national dress. Eastern crisis was really due to There is good reason, then, for knowledge that American inter-men to wear the kilt; and ests were supplying Japan with haps some enterprising English- the sinews of aggression against man may yet start China and American rights there. to popularise it among his coun Whether the neutrality legisla-trymen. He will, however, en- tion was adequate or not, it em-counter at least one obstacle. In bodied a desire of a peace-loving the matter of pockets, the spor people that economic weapons be ran does not lend itself to that used before military ones.
attitude of graceful-ease, and sat- To-day a growing sense of res-isfaction, that the portraits of ponsibility for world law develops John Bull have so often typified where an unrealistic isolationism as the essential national gesture not long ago flourished. But in moments of relaxation.
per-
movement