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gemony, England made friends with the Low Countries. During the centuries of French predo- minance she preserved a general balance by seeking allies wherever she could get them. To- day the increasing strength of Germany turns her inevitably to- ward France.
France also is impelled by the nature of things toward cement- ing British friendship. She is guaranteed against aggression by Both Britain and Russia, but no one can tell what degree of sta- bility Russia would manifest un- der strain.
Thus, the only force likely to
Hong Kong, Monday, February 21, 1938 break the Paris-London axis
Schools Of To-day
would be a sudden and decisive increase in French external pow- THE BATTLE OF
er. On the one hand, this would make the friendship of Britain THE AXES
less necessary to France; on the other, it would cause Britain to Political considerations gener- reconsider the question of power ally are so compelling in the di- balance. This is what happened rection of British endorsement the early years after the war. Any immediate repetition, how- of French policy on the Contin-ever, is improbable in the ex ent that Mr. Chamberlain's fail-treme. ure to support unhesitatingly the French demand for a demarche in Berlin may cause some raising If one may judge from the Schools Exhibition- recently held of the eyebrows. It would be in London at Dorland Hall, school foolish, However, to entertain any holidays do not afford quite the serious doubts about the Anglo-enchanting contrast to term French rapproachment. A certain time that they once did, and the day of return to work is now difference in outlook and in em contemplated by the child, one phasis in the attitude of the two imagines, with equanimity. For governments towards the Aus- this exhibition, the first of its kind to be held in Britain, re- trian developments may give co-veals that nothing short of a lour to such doubts: but to those revolution in educational meth- who look beneath the surface of ods has occurred during the last events the fundamental unity of two or three decades.
Dr. Johnson -once expressed Franco-British policy in an axiom the opinion that a great deal of current European affairs and has been done for a boy."when not likely to be upset at this par-you have brought him to have entertainment from a book”, and ticular moment in history,
it is upon this theory of arous- Just as there is a Berlin-Rome ing the child's interest that the axis, so there is a London-Paris schoolmaster · works to-day. axis. So much has been heard of Learning is no longer an unap- the solidarity of outlook as be petising decoction administered willy-nilly under stern discipline, tween Germany and Italy that as the brimstone and treacle were observers outside Europe- and once ladled out under the rod of All possible aids, even some within it—might be Mr. Squeers.
including, of excused for forgetting that of the films, radio, and television, are
course, talking-
two axes it is the Anglo-French used to make it more attractive;. which is probably the stronger. and as a consequence there
is It is not, indeed, altogether cer-majority of young scholars i tain that
Italy is well content clined, like Oliver, to ask for with events in Austria. Count more. Grandi had some curiously long The effect of this alteration is talks in London with Mr. Cham- not only to make learning easier berlain and Mr. Anthony Eden. to assimilate, but it goes a great The Italian Grand Fascist Conn- way to ensuring that the child cil was called into session on shall be equipped at the end with Saturday, to talk over financial treasure to which he will add, problems. It would be asking rather than with a store of too much of credulity to suggest knowledge that neglect will re- that there was no mention" of duce to lumber. Austria at the meeting of the It has been a long trail from Italian Cabinet. And while Dotheboys Hall to Dorland Hall; again: this may be regarded as a and much honour is due to those mere speculation on certain pos- pioneers who blazed it.
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