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LORD RUNCIMAN'S
TASK
uisite of such a condi- tion. It is to be welcomed as Stabilising factor în
poised peace.
k
delicately
New Paint on Old Stones
:
Most of us have fost count of how many times the Hyde Park Rima has been defaced by feeble- minded enthusiasts whose idea of art criticism is to throw paint at the object under discussion, but the similar attack on Stone- henge which is reported from Salisbury Plain is much more of a novelty. The problem now is to imagine what can be the basis of the grievance nursed by the dash-and-splash visitors who applied green paint to
those Lord Runciman, former Lib-venerable stones. In the case eral leader, President of the of the attacks on Rima it has Board of Trade in the National been customary to assume that Governments of Mr. Ramsay Mac- the attackers, in so far as they Donald and Earl (then Mr.) can said to have any ideas at all, Baldwin, leaves for Prague to- were moved by a desire to de- day and while there is no dis-monstrate their disapproval of position to suggest that this what they regarded as the New task is likely to be otherwise Art. Has that principle been re- than long and arduous, calling versed on Salisbury Plain, and for extreme patience and power has Stonehenge suffered because of persuasion, Europe is undoubt it obviously stands for some of edly breathing more easily be the oldest art of all discoverable cause of his acceptance of the in this island and is therefore role of mediator His problem regarded as a legitimate object can be stated in simple terms. It of attack by admirers of the is that of adjusting the demands newer schools?
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say,
of the Sudeten Germans to the It seems impossible to Czech Government's limits of but if there are, indeed, paint- concession and securing their splashers in each camp it seems agreement to a mutually accept- a pity that they cannot agree to able compromise. His chief asset let the actual examples from the is his high reputation, which will two schools, alone. Perhaps the make it difficult for the Henlein best thing to do would be to clap Party or the Czech Government both the rival gangs into some to reject out of hand any arrange small internment camp and en- ment, which he proclaims to be courage them to throw paint at a just in his considered opinion, each other.. settlement.O ABE
In Czech-Slovakia, meantime, Far, Far Away the internal political situation al-
so has greatly improved, reduc- It has been claimed by Herr ing Lord Runciman's difficulties. Hitler that certain road recon- A few weeks ago disintegrationstructions in Berlin are designed was threatening the State. To to yield their proper return not day there are strong indications in 1940 but in A.D. 2000 or of progress toward unity. The possibly 2500. There is much to Sudeten German problem re-be said for prophecies of that mains. Other minorities still press kind, if only because any ulti- for consideration of their alleged mate test of their accuracy is so grievances. But apparently since beautifully beyond the personal the day when Father Andreas eyesight of anyone now living. It Filinka, the Roman Catholic is those measly little flights of priest who leads the Slovak Peo- prognostication, those craven ple's Party, failed to rouse suf-pronouncements on what will ficient Slovak opinion against the happen six weeks or six months Government, good will and reason hence, that are so apt to come have been routing the forces of to visible and remembered grief; racial animosity, and political op- when the prophet has hitched portunism which had made the his wagon to a star which is as minority problems all but insofar away as A.D. 2500 he has Huble
launched himself off into a far The result is that in negotia- safer sphere. tions with the Sudeten German At the same time such delayed- delegation, the Government, in-action excellence is apt to be a stead of standing almost alone, bit irritating to the plain man; is able to share with a coalition the assurance that there is of numerous parties the respon- good time coming at
any- sibility for an agreement with thing from one to five centur- the Sudeten German Party. Thus iea hence falls coldly on the ears it may be possible to avoid con- of those who had warm hopes of cessions which would violate the something pleasant lurking democratic constitution of the round the next corner. It is a State.
fine ideal to plan for posterity,
Of course, the support of the but if too much is heard about Slovaks has been earned by con-arrangements of that sort there cessions to them in matters of may arise once more the old, language, which, indeed, will re intransigent inquiry"Well, what quire amendment of the consti- has posterity ever done for me?” tution. But the process is to be Besides, in the case of totalitarian orderly and within the frame-systems this touching regard for work of constitutional govern the requirements of posterity ment. To other minorities, like-may look rather like the process wise, the Government no doubt which is known across the At- will grant new rights, and to the lantic (and on this side too) as Sudeten Germans in particular passing the buck." Some people
argue that when a dictatorship - finds itself embarrassed on the home front the next device) is is
ow
Reforms may have been past due. But what is important Is that they shall be made out Impairing the integrity
vakian" staté.
eign adventure. Net ily; a really generous,
long-
licy for the beneft" of 1o creature" posterity soning card to play.