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AMERICA AND DEMOCRACY
great
ADVERSARIA
“He was, said the speaker, one of their most rusted officials.” The plodding oxidised.
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Young journalists should note that when three or more are gathered together to perform some task they are always a small army of workers; if in connection with a church bazaar, they are an army of willing workers.
-THIS WEEKS GREAT
THOUGHT
"From October this year he will enter a course of study of a year's fur. duration at Reichsakedemie
There is no doubt that struggle is going on to-day in the hearts and minds of the peo- ple of the U.S.A. On the one hand Liebesbungen in Berlin," instinct and historical tradition incline them to keep themselves to themselves, to follow a policy of neutrality, to avoid entangle FIFTY YEARS OF NEUMATIC
artment in other people's quarrels,
(Liebesbungen means Love Opera-
tions.)
TIRES
On the other hand a belief_in
In fifty years they should have Law, Peace, Freedom, and De-got the spelling right. mocracy forms the very core of
their political Faith. To-day they *She likes the colony but the have received in the uprising of people are very crude in their man- a new type of Totalitarian State
And No respec-
ners! They are no respectors of a challenge to the very fundamen persons, which is quite true. tal principles of this democratic she might have added: faith. The individual in Japan, tors of age!'" Germany and Italy and for
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may be, in Russia too-is regard- ed as a mere cog in the State | machine, without any liberty of his own in either. speech or action. These States two of them at least, Japan and Italy- have organised themselves pri- marily as fighting machines of superlative efficiency, and have openly proclaimed the doctrine that the ability to fight is the
Or better still, she might have said "respecters.
"He will, however, have to unseal his leaps next Wednesday." Political article.
Otherwise he wont surmount the hurdles.
"Farr kept out of reach but trou- bled his opponents with two-fished. attacks." English paper.
A couple of slaps with a halibut or
only basis for the rights of a a cod would disconcert any opponent.
State in the international com- munity
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"Mr. Eden declared that the in- Above all, the American-sees that the new Fascist Militarist discriminate use of air welfare was State has already won con-brutalising in its effect on all con- siderable degree of success. Italy cerned."-London daily, has annexed Abyssinia, Germany
a
for Fas-
Welfare, that is, achieved with
OVERHEARD NEAR THE STOCK EXCHANGE
“I have an
secret information that
has absorbed Austria. Japan is machine guns and bombs. trying to swallow up China. De- mocracy in Europe and the Lea- gue of Nations have proved un- able to check the many encroach- ments. Spain seems likely to be they are going to push these shares. completely conquered
"Yes, but which way?" cism. Czechoslovakia, the one
"I heard 'wonderful language, the democratic State of Central Europe, may easily fall into the language of the sea. Once, for power of Germany, if not by seven and one-eighth minutes, the force of arms at least by economic skipper never repeated himself. pressure.
know, for I timed him with a stop- In this small world, the triumph watch.'' of anarchy in Europe and Asia At the customary speed of swear- may well be the forerunner of a ing of a couple of hundred words a still wider triumph in God's own minute this means 1,425 · separat country.
oaths, which seems like exceeding the best of Rabelais.
T. C. G..
It is not surprising that intelli- gent Americans are becoming in- creasingly aware that they can not, even if they would, remain life, and the only way of life, isolated. The new spirit is well which Americans believe to be.
xpressed in a recent leading worth living In spite of 49 rticle of the "New York Times. our geographical remoteness and remoteness from the scene traditional desire to avoid
of a potential European conflict tanglement in other people (the writer says), can isolate the quarrels we are inevitably.co United States from the conse. [natural allies of the democracies: quences of a major war “In of Europe."
any ultimate test of strength be- There can be little doubt tween democracy and dictator- though the U.S.A. - may ship, the good will and moral join the League of Nations, she support, and, in the long run, may be relied on to back Britain,
likely than not the physical and France if the Governments United States will of these countries were to give a those firm lead at Geneva and in the
ir East against aggression.