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gue war is nevertheless a war, and "police operations" in which soldiers are employed and mar- tial lay replaces the normal criminal code are wars too. Only
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PAX BRITANNICA
Quaker efforts to prevent war by persuading individual men to eschew the use of violence have The collanse of collective ser influenced history since the move- urity and the
le menaces to world ment began, and modern pacifism peace to-day furnish the theme has its origin, perhaps, in Qua- of of two interesting hooks just ker emphasis on this aspect
Christian teaching. In the Age published in London. Mrs.
of Reason, it was inevitable that M. Swanwick, author of “Collec-new peace projects should "ap- tive Insecurity," sees as the only pear. Rousseau, Bentham, and remedy the reform of the Lea. Kant contributed plans for pre-
serving peace perpetually.
each Sir John Marriott, an his-lived through a period of gue. torian, whose book is entitled most unceasing war. "Commonwealth or Anarchy,” The Manchester Liberals,
the time of the Industrial Re sees the League merely as one of
faire a series of experiments in peacevolution, reached laisser
as a cure for war as well as for making and suggests its final economic ills. Specifically, they failure.
advocated the "emancipation" of -* Mrs. Swanwick, who has been colonies because they foresaw
that-colonies would cause war: "? a British delegate at Geneva, Peace movements languished considers that the League was in the period of ardent nation- foredoomed to failure because it alism and Imperialism whose fig- in Eng- had its origin in an unjust peace ureheads are Disraeli treaty, which outlawed the very land, Bismarck in Germany, and Cavour in Italy. Yet, Sir John people alleged warlike pro- Marriott considers British Im- pensities were most feared. The perialiam a greater producer of same men who formed the Een-peace than Bentham a policy of gué created a group of humiliatcolonial emancipation could have been. Imperialism, he declares, ed nations, which at length be- has imposed the Pax Britannica came a most likely cause of war upon 400,000,000 British sub-
examina While the out-law nations were jects. And, after an- weak, the League flourished, but tion of the genesis, nature, and recent decline of the League of when its authority was threaten- Nations, Sir John Marriott re- ed it began to collapse like a house turns to the Pax Britannica, of cards. Within four years, two which "ass
"assures peace” to one- of the five major Allied Powers fourth of the human race” “The |real problem for the world,” he Japan and Italy defied the
concludes, is whether the prin- League by conducting a war of ciple which holds together - the aggression in contempt of the British Empire cannot,mutatis League Covenant and the Pact mutandis, be extended in ever- of Paris. "Two of the four widening circles; or, at the least, original permanent members of whether the British Empire may the Council had thus been guilty not afford a model for similar of the very crime which they formations.” Unfortunately, would be empowered to judge if three out of every four of the it wa
committed by another 400,000,000 people *
whom Power, Mrs. Swanwick points "peace is assured" by Brits out.or
in the Indian Empire. France and Britain, the other there is a strong move two original permanent mem-separation. If this prob bers, had also been guilty, Mrs. solved, it would be with Swanwick considers, of offences mind and with" pride, tha against the spirit of the Coven-Briton, of every hue,
had used her arms Sir John Marriott a hope
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