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MIRROR OF
OF WORLD OPINION
PRESS RAIDS ON THINKING
Many criticisms
directed
strain on any nation that wages it; unless the nation has the grit and the power of self-sacrifice that are neces-.
the strain, some- at the sary to withstand press are silly. The most frequent re- thing snaps and the mob takes con- presents it as a deeply-calculating trol. Then chaos follows. The present commerce-tainted conspiracy against fear is that the nations of Europe may the public pocket. It looks different not stand the strain-"The Rock." to me. In my observation the great-
er part of the press-always with no- table exceptions-is simply childishly irresponsible; carried away by the excitement and immediacy to its job; intoxicated with a sense of false ur-
gency....
"LISTEN WITH COMPASSION"
War
formula
emerged
of
From the World a tortured peace. The generals knew, When I argue these matters with then, that war was not as it used to newspaper editors they always reply be, but the diplomats had yet to learn that the press can be no better than their own old-time the public that supports it, and it has punishment to tell them what they want to know (and need to know) and in the way they like to hear it. To which my only It is too late, now, to cry over what and reply is that a quick-thinking press they might have learned should tell its public things they need didn't. But is it also too late to hope to know before they have even that when and if the treaty-makers guessed they need to know them.
Let me repeat, I think the publicity engineers are mostly unaware of the
for the vanquished, predation and spoils for the victor
also had become obsolescent.
-
ever again are privileged to gather peace-making conference around a
exhaust gas they emanate. It is in the table, they shall forget arrogance and hearts 10 main
an unconscious emphasis-due pride, and allow to haste, fatigue, despair-on the listen
their with compassion?
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easiest appeal; the shocking, the vul- 'Courier-Journal," Louisville. gar, the comic, the immediate, the premature. But they create, both in themselves and in others, so curiously distorted a sense of social values that even good men begin to hanker for what
You begin they hate. think the day is lost if there aren't any scareheads in the papers. .. "Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review,"
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BRAVE NEW WORLD?
present European
to
"The
A WARNING
to the pos- The British reference sibility of a three years' war, how- more than a rebuff to ever, is far
It is German peace manoeuvres.
a warning to the whole Empire of the real nature of the ordeal that lies before it. The prospect of a long war does not mean that British peo- in ples can afford to be leisurely
'The marshalling their resources.
UNHAPPY GERMANY
The most alarming thing that has longer victory is postponed the more all the while been said in connection with the costly it becomes, and
the terrible risks and uncertainties of war remain. Bri- tain is acting with vigour as well as resolution, and Australia similarly must increase. the tempo of her war organisation, as yet
many scare -
war is that it may bring about the collapse of our present civilisation and that the na- tions may go of through years chaos and misery before a new order is evolved. Is this a real danger or is it just one of the pieces of mongering intended to spread war fever and sell more newspapers ? And if it is a danger what ex- actly does it mean? Unfortunately it is a very real danger and it means that Europe is threatened with a. state of things similar to that which took place in post-war Rus- sia. It is an alarm- ing prospect even contemplate,
to
and responsible men in every country
The unhappy course of Ger- man history, which has issued In the cultural catastrophe of Na- tional Socialism, is in truth very much bound up with that unpo- litical cast of
bourgeois the mind, and with its anti-demo- Gratie habit of looking down the nose from its intellectual and cul- tural height at the sphere of poll. tical and social action.
This political passivity and re- democracy has from moteness frightfully avenged Itself.
Ger-
a
many has been sacrified to State totalitarianism which has robbed her not only of civic but of moral freedom. If we identify democracy with the recognition that the political and social aro constituent parts of the human; If we say that democracy, in de- fending her civil freedom, defends her ethical freedom as well; then the opposite of democracy is that theory and that fundamentally anti-human practice which makes the political dominate the whole field of human affairs to the ex- clusion of everything Thomas Mann
elsc.
unaware
of where her blows may best be struck, but
assured that and stern effort heavy sacrifice will be demand- ed of her. The Menzies Gov- ernment has be- gun well, but it cannot be said that its mea-
sures
for mili-
tary training are yet adequate to the needs
of
the country. The wave of pa- triotism which is inducing thou- sands of men
·to seek enlist- overseas it-
ment for service here or can be relied must not be allowed to spend up to make every effort to prevent self in the sands of official discour- Nor or unpreparedness. it, but there is reason to fear that agement events may prove too strong for them do present uncertainties regarding the and that forces already unleashed extent of the war and the nature of in it offer in may gather hurricane force and sweep Australia's participation
and barriers the slightest pretext for delay aside all the props that may be hurriedly set up. It is training the nation's man-power. The not in the power of statesmen to pro- one thing certain in a clouded future vide safeguards of the kind that are in that, if the Empire is to survive and most needed, for the crisis is a moral wing it can do so only by the full one, or more correctly a spiritual one, utilisation of its human and material in which neither legistation nor fac strength, and these resources must be tories can give the assistance that is mobilised with the best possible speed.
terrible -“Sydney Morning Herald." required, War imposes R