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But Pan returned as soon as publication should be addressed to
Greek literature was read again the Editor, and be accompanied by with delight, and the fairies have never ceased to flourish in litera- the Writer's Name and Address,ture down to our own time. If anyone has any doubt about this he should consider the impressive collection of books representing. fairy literature now on exhibi-- tion at the Bodleian Library in | Oxford, and the fairies enshrined in their stories from Morgan le Fay in the Morte D'Arthur down. to Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (1906).
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Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 31, 1939. tive faith by declaring: "I do
CANADIAN COMPLICATIONS
Canada's anxiety as
ean
to what
no.
believe in fairies." Yet fairies- have played so large a part in the literature of English-speak- ing peoples that they have a. fantasy world of their own from which no ban can evict them and she would do in case of a Europ- place them. If mortal eyes fall no rival in good works can dis-- war is even deeper than
the America's. There is quite a siz-on Oberon and Titania in able group which favours neu-
woodland or hear the prankish voice of Puck, commonsense, trality. But the debate constantly
doubt, concludes: runs up against the indubitable fact that Canada has the same sovereign as Britain. That is the only constitutional link left with the mother country. But, apart altogether from any sentimental tie, a common king is a formal our bookshelves the little people But that is not to banish from relationship which would make who danced on the hills, or who neutrality, to say the least, ano-favoured dairies and sleeping- malous.
Neutrality for Canada while the mother country was at war, for instance, would involve the sovereign in a peculiar, not to say, Gilbertian situation.
Think but this (and all is:
mended),
That you have but slumber'd
here.
chambers between sunset and
have assumed a more permanent sunrise. Born in folklore, they
Prankish they were, but on the place in fantasy and in literature..
In Britain he would be at war therefore, until men have learn-- whole well-disposed to men. And, and in Canada he would be neu-ed to be better disposed toward tral toward his "own" war-mak-
one another fairies may well ing! No doubt the constitutional lawyers may soon join in the carry on in fiction policies that mankind would like to adopt in forensic fray, and find a way in fact. which His Majesty need not be
untrue to himself. But to the layman the difficulty would seem
to be insoluble except on terms
*
from which most Canadians Popular Mice
would shrink.
*
For the abstract logic of a The news that the R.A.F. is neutral position would lead to compiling a national register of ward secession. Theoretically this pigeons for use in the event of would not be impossible under war recalls the little-known fact. the Statute of Westminster which that the British Admiralty even made the "dominions" self-gov-found employment for white mice erning members of the British at one time. In the early days Commonwealth. But practically of the submarine a number of such a denouement is next to white mice, tastefully housed in unthinkable. For the King is a little cages, were allotted to each unifying influence not only be vessel in order to test the quality tween Canada and the mother of the air circulating in certain country but also within the Can-compartments. The Admiralty, it adian Federation itself. Beyond appeared, had developed a notion. that, diverse elements which that the mouse showed signs of may not be enthusiastic about approaching asphyxiation at an the monarchy nevertheless value earlier stage than the canary, intensely the connection which which is habitually used in the it. symbolizes with the other mines under similar circumstan- - . members of the British Empire. ces.
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Conceivably, if the United There is no reason to suppose: States should adopt an all-round that Whitehall's belief was faulty, embargo, it might be to Britain's but unfortunately the tender- advantage to have Canada free hearted sailors on the submarines to serve as a
trans-shipping showed a profound disinclination point. But the probabilities of to put the matter to a practical Canada's leaving the Empire test. Instead they made great appear even a great deal less pets of the mice, took every pos- than the ratio of the vote of sible precaution to keep the tiny another secession" proposal that of separation of Nova Scotia from Canada-which was defeat ed in the Halifax City Council the other day by 14 to-1.
creatures away from doubtfu air currents, and finally incurred the 'official wrath of the Ad- miralty by giving them away, as presents to their friends ashore,