HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935.
The Basis Of International Peace
Mr. She Addresses Rotarians
SEEK THE KINGDOM OF PEACE
The Basis Of International Peace" was the subject of an interesting address delivered by Mr. George She at the weekly tidin of the Hong Kong' Rotary Club, held at the Hong Kong. Hotel yesterday when Prof. L. Foster presided.
and
Rotarian O. Eager was welcomed as a new member other guests present were: Messrs. R. A. D. Forrest, D. F.Davies and C. Y. Kwan
The speaker was introduced to the gathering by the presid- ent who said that the subject on which Mr She was going to speak was the continuation of an address be delivered some months ago. There had been no opportunity between then and now for Mr. She to complete his talk.
Mr. She, the president said, had been in Europe for the last six years arid was in every way a qualified speaker on the sub- ject as his lot in Europe had thrown him in with ma..y promin- ent political people. Mr. She was also a great believer of the social system and his talk that afternoon was first hand and in every way authoritativë.
The Race Of Armaments
Addressing the gathering Mr. She said:--
I keenly appreciate the honour of being invited again to address you on a tople which is uppermost In our minds to-day. Your Pre- sident has asked me to give you the instance of a talk which was
given to another gathering, last year." I apologise to those who may have heard my last talk. I may appear to repeat myself. Í
When I had the privilege of dis- cussing with you the problem of disarmament the thesis was to
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I and my officers of the peace (and shall I call them my jus- tices of the peace) shall punish without exception every breach of the King's Peace by caused."
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whosoever
of peace to the Chauvinist that I reel a word in reason is neces-
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The pacifist position of declin-
ing to ight under all circumstan-
ces as based on the submission that all resort to physical force ls "wrong" When attacked wa win not retaliate and when ask to ar-
tack or defand we will firmly de-
cline.
Ther
Such a philosophy is more sult- able In A monastery than in human society, where if good men withdraw their influence, unscrupulous men will prevail.
Here let us once again return to first principles-this time.. we will go to Burke. In Burke's day there was & heated
AGED COOLIE KILLED
Landslide At North Point
A small landslide which was un- fortunately marred by a tragic sequet occurred yesterday morning shortly after 10.30 o'clock when a coolte was crushed to death and another removed to hospital in a serious condition suffering from multiple injuries.
THE SANITARY BOARD
Two Applications Rejected
Of the three applications that came up before the Sanitary Board yesterday at its fortnightly meeting two were refused while the third was deferred till the next meeting.
An "application for an offensive trade licence namely cleansing 'sharks'. Ans at No. 19 Des Voeux While a gang of coolies were at Road West, third floor was refused, work at the P.W.D. Stolte Quarry An application for an eating at North Point, a little distance house licence at No. 352 Shanghai behind the Chinese Bathing Club Street ground floor was deferred to shed, a mass of rock and earth the "next meeting due to a similar controversy | suddenly slid down from a height Ecence having been granted in whether good men should support of about 80 feet.
another case about a fortnight ago. party Government or withdraw Most of the coolies quickly The Board would like to go into from it altogether. Many con- scampered for shelter but Wong the present application in the sclenticus statesmen who had the Chai, aged 53, and" Hop Fat, aged meantime. good at the country at heart felt ₤37, who were working at the base that the party machinery had been persistently completed by selfish men and faction that they would have nothing to with 16. Then Burke thundered out in his "Present Discontents."."
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"This withdrawal" he said, is tantamount to surrender, What is wrong is hot a dead instrument called Party Machine.
What wrong is the misuse or abuse a good thing. If good men will not organise for the public good. bad теп will
combine fer anti-social ends. We must reasoni
with the pacifist. Their ultimate
Another refusal was made in the of the hill were caught by the application for an eating house falling debris and were covered Ecence at No. 64 Des Voeux Road by about a ton of rocks and earth. Į Central, ground floor.
The coolles on the spot im- The other business was of a mediately went to the rescue of routine nature. '. their
comrades" and the Fire Those present were Mr." W, 3. Brigade was immediately inform-Carrie, president, Dr. G. W. Pope, ed of the accident. Two ap-M.OH, Messra. M. E. Lo, L. C. F. pliances were at once despatched Bellamy and Dr. R. Au de Castro to the scène ona from Wanchal Basto.
Central and are Officer J. W. Woolard.
The remen worked feverishly
from
under
for about ten minutes when the
Hfeless body of Wong Chal
was
extricated from the debris in a
THE KELLOG PACT From that moment inter-caron-object is the good life of Society mangled condition: Hop Fat was lal war gradually ceased. The but the method they adopt to obrescued a little later with multiple
injuries and was at once removed
to the hospital in an ambulance.
That particular part of the hill is composed of solid rocks with little earth around it and it is surmised that the rocks were
English nation had introduced law
tain that end is suleidał. It is a as a substitute for war in the so- policy which unscrupulous men lution of disputes. With the Ad-
desire to be lost. The existence vent of the King's Peace we see
of anti-social forces in the body the rise of the King's court.
politic is no reason for the with- drawal of the social forces. It is loosened Now the Kellog Pact sets out to maintain that under modern code for internations life what the the very reason for the social ditions, the unfathomable forces King's Peace succeded in doing for
forces to be better organised and of Science harassed to the in-national life. It is significant to be in the very centre of the genuity of man, would make it that the first letters of the King's body politic. to keep it in politi- possible to limit armaments effec-
Peace are also the first letters of cal health and sanity." tively.
the Kellog Fact.
ANTI-SOCIAL FORCES The anti-social forces are
by the recent heavy rains and gave way under pressure of the water which had collected on the top.
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CAPITAL TO BE REDUCED
LCI. Scheme Before The Court
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2, A petition "by tne Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, for confrmation of a proposed reduc- tion of its capital from £95,000,000 · of peace which after all is a to £89,565,859 came before Mr. Of course the world would re-
Contrast this conception of pc-
to-worthy concern. The merits of Justice, Eve in the Chancery. Divi- joice if the race of armaments litical existence with the inter-day "mugh "better organised than judges and arbitrators
sion to-day on an application to could be stopped, but nothing is national anarchy of to-day. To the social forces. There is no- We are in Lile toroes of ax a date for the hearing. more dangerous than to have an day when a war or a threat of thing not even the door so effworld economic depression now 6 agreed disarmament convention
war breaks out between two sta- clently organised the arms years old. The cause of it is only to find that the signatories tes: we at once fall into the blind-Tramc,-80 persuasive 23 the strictly speaking. not economic
Mr. Lionel Cohen, K.G., for the every day are upsetting by newing error of considering the merits traffic in drugs and women. bat political. The remedy for it inventions, new political align of the case.
company, asked that, in addition again is net genomic but politi- fixing a day for the hearing. ments and new military alliances.
cal
I well remember sitting by his Lordship should also Ex 2 the French bank of the Rhine time for the delivery of looking over to Germany on that evidence in opposition. fateful week in September 1931, when Mukden was occupied.
It is more natural to argue that. 11 war is outlawed effectively then the weapons of war will disappear, than to argue that the weapons of war disappear then war wili have been effectively outlawed.
If the Temple of Peace cannot be reached by the road of disar- mament, by what other path can the Pilgrim of Peace reach Temple?
his
That is the question which shall try to answer:
We
MIGHT AND RIGHT Before doing that it is necessary to discuss two other questions which are intimately concerned with the main problem:
(1) The Principle of the King's
Peace
(2) The Probieni of the .com-
scientious objector.
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENTS
If A and B citizens of Hong Корк were found fighting in Queen's Road. the policeman there could not sit in judgment on the merits of their case, otherwise ten there would be confusion times worse confounded. Further he would be usurping the func- tion of the judge. No, his con- cern is to enforce peace (that is' tc. use social force preserve peace). The policeman's concern is to see that no private squabble should be allowed to prevent other peaceful citizens from the fall enjoyment of the Peace.
to
If you see what I am driving at -you will at once see the relev- ance of such a trend of reasoning
in international disputes.
In 1932, at the height of the
as
Further force 13.a neutral · ele-
ment. It 15 in itself, neither good nor bad. It is the use to what it is put which gives it quality or lack of quality.
We fall to find a "criterion when resort to force is social and s justified and when resort to force is anti-social and not justiñed.
Let us go back to first princ!- ples of law again.
Take the case of a policeman and the criminal.
OWN RESOURCES ·
The petition is opposed by over 85,000 shareholders.・・・
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the
were
THE OPPOSITION Mr. Justice Eve said he under- Imagine Latvia growing its own stood that the opposition fell into rubber and you will realise how two categories irregularities at every State is trying to raise all the meetings and that it was an the armaments of war-cotton, unfair scheme. rubber, gutu percber, oll, petrol- Mr. H. J. Wallington, K.C.. for within their own territories. They the opponents, said there. Both "resort to force to gain know that it is economically un- one or two other matters, and his their ends. In the case of the sound, but they can ill afford to clients, rightly or wrongly, sub- cminal the resort to force 13 be without war supplies, in a mitted that it was a case of such outrary, it originates from him world in which war is still possi- an unusual character that the self (or to use the phrasology of | ble, So the Laternational river Court should order "discovery." the law court he takes the law of trade has been slowly damned This scheme, as they now knew, into his cwp hands), He uses his at every part of its course until had been under the consideration force for his own benefit. That now only a few drops of water of the Board since January. 1933. resort to force is anti-social;" trickle down. There will and can During that time the persons who be no return of world prosperity bought shares knew nothing about until the problem of war and but bought under the old con- peace is settled.“
The policeman also resorts tu
force. It does originate with him, for he is in a sense, a disinterest ed party and the resort to force is not for his own ends but for
Apply this criterion to interna-
ditions,
Manchurian crisis, too much dis- When Henry II came to the cussion of the merits of one case throne of England in the 12th. prejudiced a balanced view of that
Thus I leave this very inade- TWO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS Century, England was torn by in-dispute. The repeat danger in
quate and sketchy discussion
"At some time," said Mr. Wall- cessant warfare between the Bathe Italo Ethioplan impasse 1s the good of society of which he with a big question mark » ington, "a"large number of these rons. These powerful Barons had that we should make the same is a part.
THE PRICE OF PEACE
Deferred shares have been bought their private armies and whenever mistake. I risk an exaggeration
'Are: we perhaps to pay the from directors, or past directors, one baron had or felt he had a and say that the merits of the tional disputes and you can al-price of peace-in other words, and there are two very serious grievance against another he case have nothing whatever to do ways tell whether the resort to use social force if necessary to questions for the Court to con- "would take the law into his own with the problem of enforcing force in any state is justified or make certain for all times that Bider
hands and like some nations of world peace. If the people remain not. to-day wage a war of retaliatior: faithful to this scrollary drawn The result was that England's from the conception of the King's green and pleasant land was con- Peace we shall soon be freeing the tinually devastated: Because two world of all waIS, private and powerful citizens had a quarrel the whole country had Lo suffer in order that one or the other (usually the more powerful) might secure redress.
A UNITED FRONT
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those who break the world peace whether in all the circum- will of a certainty have the ma-stances, the ́shareholders were If all the Pacifists of the world jority of mankind against them? fully informed by the circular were to say that they will under The basis of Peace is there. I sent out by the directors: no circumstances fight for their do not think collective system is "And whether they were in part Nations must be made to settle their international disputes by country if the resort to force inne. What is lacking is the will misled at the meeting when the
that particular is anti-social but to back it up. Men working for polls were taken " peaceful means, or not at all,
"There is not the slightest idea The fact that a dispute exists that it will join forces with the selfish and anti-social ends have between two states is no argu-social force of the world in order the will to organise themselves in anyone's mind" counsel added, for those ends. Have we the will that there has been any want of to stamp "out any attempt When the King intervened in ment that it should be settled at breach of world peace then we to do likewise? If you desire good faith at all, but I want to the name of the nation both the crice so that if peaceful means are on the first step towards a prosperity, if you wish for the full convey in language incapable of belligerent pleaded the merits of fall, then, war must be resorted to
war-purged world. At the last enjoyment of the fat years of being misunderstood that this is their case.
As Hegel said several The dispute may be allowed to
Lambeth Conference the Arch 1924 and 1922 again, then have a claim in which the petitioners centuries later. "In every quarrell awalt a solution later on. For bishops and Bishops in convoca the will and determination: to the issues are not between right over a decade England and Egyption resolved that they will not seek first-the kingdom of peace and wrong, but it is a question have disagreed over the Sudan. aght in any International was in and all these things will be added capital has been lost or is un
They cannot solve their dispute
represented by available assets or Henry II saw the dilerama. He but they have not gone to war their State did not first, submit unto you
that dispute to arbitration. Any
THANKS RETURNED that there is any ques realised at once that the plea of about it. In a calmer atmosphere.
In proposing a vote of thanks solvency; what we must be care- resort to settle an international
arian M K. Le tu about is to have reserves
of might against right.”
are saying:
"We do not suggest that the
anti-social said that the subject of the talk preciation and obscience and
earts of all Ro-would be very convenient for the that was one of the directors to have a capital sum the Rotary Club After to draw upon instead of drawing
had made
ference upon revenue,
The merits of the case was the with time and reason, all disputes dispute, by taking the law into to the speak bête noire of national pence. He are capable of peaceful solution. hit on a superb antideze. He pro- We must not hurriedly pass one's own hands is nounced the idea of the King's to a consideration of the problem all the people of the world as should be. Peace. He said somewhat like of the conscientious objector. this of course, in the elegant There is a large group of very language of a royal proclamation ne men and women who are so The whole of England is now anxious to usher in the reign of placed under my peace, if any one peace that they propose to do so would they fight for King and countr
guardians and Justices of the tar peace, should at once organise ideals themselves into one vastforce Rotar and present / united front to the against the breaker of the peace, and the Time does not perm us to dis- taking
of my subjects be he Lord or sert by maintaining hat under cuss the means at the disposal of by say breaks my peace, I shall treat it rumstanc
as a contempt of the King'a ma- jesty. If my subjects in future
have a quarrel they minat settle
it peacefully or not at all. I shall that
PACE
work
and determined
have so many pacifist friends two
ʼn extremely reluctant to they
in future completely ignore the say anything that will cause them we
merits of the case as
tion for a breach of
Justifica pain. But the
peace, wittingly surrendered the cause.
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