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NEW YEAR HONOURS
The Now Year Honours List pre-
serves the tradition of recent years,
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conceding little to political patron-. age, arousing little interest outside very limited circles. An industrial magnate and publicist are elevated to the peerage, a famous actor le given a knighthood, Mr. Barlow's hard work in the interest of the Lancashire cotton industry in recognised and the services of a number of women arc duly rewarded. Beyond such, the list largely consists of honours which give the impression that they have come in due process of time rather than that the recipients and their names included following service of more than ordinary merit. This is one direction in which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has sought to be spectacular.
BREAD AND BUTTER
never
to
If Mr. Joseph Dennigan is made to serve the sentence of a month's
refusing for imprisonment disclose the source of information published in a Free State news- paper, he will at least consider n worthy one. Even the cause Military Tribunals and de Valerite Justice will not shake this tradition of the journalistle profession. It is not even material whether in- formation is given in confidence. or otherwise. Unless the giver of news is willing, names are never disclosed. The reason is obvious, The ethical side of the issue is of far less. importance than the fact that newspapermen rely to a very the large extent upon retaining confidence of those who may be of assistance in the task of gathering.
"ALL QUIET"
news-
Prussia's ban on "All Quiet on the Western Front" furnishes another example of the conflict
pence
those without experience. Crude us it is in parts, it can at lenst claim to have achieved its purpose more effectively than most books of the same model. Hence ban. Herr Hitler claims to have nothing but peace in his heart. But there is no getting away from the fact
Nazis that the out every means by which peaceful thoughts can be cultivated in young Germany,
stamping
INTRIQUE IN AFRICA
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Europe is not the only sphere in which the Nazis are stirring trouble with their doctrine that all
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ANTHONY EDEN
By HAROLD LASKI
APTAIN Anthony Eden who thing very like the contemptuous
was promoted to Lord Privy disbelief of his leaders, Seal in the New Year Honours List, has been one of the few do- finite successes among the mem- bors of the "National" Govern ment. He has tact and charm, he Is capable of a liberal-minded out
look.
He speaks well, and persuasive ly. He gives the impression of a man who not only has character, but also works hard at his job.
Except Mr. Stanley, there is none of the younger Tories whose future appears more certain.
He has not had an easy task in these last two years. To play second fiddle to Sir John Simon while the latter has been losing the confidence of progressives was a dieut essay in loyalty.
To be sent to Geneva to explain that the British Government docs not want to do most of the things you have an inner suspicion are really worth doing would tax the ingenuity of a pretty experienced politician.
In domestic politice, Mr. Eden has done little to define an atti tude. His affiliations appear to be with Mr. Oliver Stanley and the dozen or so young Torios who feel dimly that there really is a new world and that the old shibbolethe are obsolete.
That does not mean that they are near-Socialists or anything of the kind. It means that in rathor vague and inchoate way they would like to do the decent thing if they only knew what is the decent thing to do.
They are disturbed about un- smployment and the slums. They know that the desire of the old Die-hards to reconstruct the House of Lords against Labour Is-in- defensible. They are sick of a Government policy which lacks clarity and drive and energy.
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If I may breathe it, they are a little tired even of Mr. Mac-
The Very Idea!
MAKING MONEY
By Eddle Kelly, Poverty-stricken CHRISTMAS · and New
Year holidays have left us so broke that we hard- ly have a whole bone left in our body. Leastwise, we haven't a whole bean left in our pocket.
We tried to touch. Robert MacWhirter for five bucks yesterday, but where money's concerned he's touchy, and yet not touchy, if you get what we mean. We couldn't.
Money is our pressing need. We knead dough.
Falling donations from our readers we are going to institute money-making system into this office. Robert MacWhirter will come in on it because we've offered to give him fifty per cent.
To-morrow morning we are go-
to the boss.
Yet Mr. Eden has emerged from Donald's polysyllabic posturings, ing to suggest the following Idea
these ordeals without any sacrl-i
fice of reputation. It is easy for they think his capital Investment an under-seeretary to make his in "patriotiem" in 1981 has been Among themselves, they are de office nothing more than a step- pretty well repaid. ping-stone in his career.
Part of the give and take of Par-ressed at the contrast between the courage and initiative of Pre- liamentary life is an unstated assident Roosevelt and the deter sumption that the Under-Secretary mined and angry somnolence of shall not participate in the major Downing Street. They are even responsibilities of his chief; and boki, enough to think that Mir. he is allowed, therefore, a cer- MacDonald will not save Great tain privacy of conscience upon Britain by empty appeal to the the condition that his doubts and achievement of 1931. counter-affirmations do not be come publicly emphasised.
Within these limits, Mr. Eden has built himself pretty firmly in- to the favour of the House of Com- mons. He gives the impression of
Men who live differently think straightforwardness; there is no differently, and it is an interesting thing of Sir John Simon's sophisti.index to the results of an unequal cated complexity about him.
At Geneva, I think it is true to eny that he is the only representa- tive of the present Government who has won the respect of foreign delegates there.
Mr. MacDonald is never at home with the League; his dislike of it is too patent, and it does not suit his habit of backstairs negotiation, which is, of course, another name for what he calls "atmosphere."
Sir John Simon appears to have given up all faith in the League;
or, at least, he has been the main architect of its fallure these last
two years.
They do not much like the pros. pect of submitting his negative complacencies to an electoral ver- dict of which they will pay the price.
He really wants the best of both worlds. He wants a square deal for the workers, but he does not want to disappoint any of the established expectations which might jeopardise the privileges of that aristocracy for whom the workers have to pay. It is a world of peace and security that he wants; but at bottom ho fcols that it is for other nations to take risks for them,
He likes trade unions, so long as they do not strike. He con education, so long as it is fitted to the categories of the present social order.
Fasciem he dislikes intensely, above all, in its Hitlerite form; but it is, for him essentially a Ger man-Italian problem, and he does not feel the need for that generous and instinctive indignation which sent out Mr. Gladstone on his great crusade against. Turkish
atrocities.
In a word, Mr. Eden is the Eng- lish gentleman at his best. He is a pragmatist to his finger-tips. He does not dig into foundations because he knows that is a danger-
Lords Hailsham and London. derry quite patently belong to the pre-war epoch; their attitude laous adventure, simple and unadulterated national- iam, which other States can take or leave as they please; they obviously have no faith in this new-fangled nonsense about inter
society that the history, the In- terests, and the traditions of the privileged class to which Mr. He is quite obviously concerned Eden belongs prevent him from that we should be appearing be-approaching all questions of first The real significance of Mr.
fore Europe, not as the supporter principle with an open mind. Hitler's Herr between Baldwin's New Year message,
protestations and the anti-pence of progress, but as that candid declaring that a return to party netivities which he permits to gofriend whom George Canning so strife would be a calamity to the unchecked in Germany, Remarque's rightly prayed to be spared.
He has never cultivated Mr. nation, lies in the fact that it novel was motivated entirely by a
of MacDonald's habit of rhetorical was addressed to the Primrose desire to expose the horrors
evasion. He says what he has to war, to destroy the glamour as- League, an ultra-Tory organisa-sociated with war in the minds of say simply; and when, as over matters like aerial bombardment, tion. There has latterly been a
he obviously does not like what he strong campaign in certain
has to say, he is able to make, it quarters aimed at the break-up
decently apparent that he is mere thely the mouthpiece, and not the of the National Government and
maker, of policy. its substitution by a purely Tory administration. The "Die Hard" element in the Party is at the back of this movement, which has the support of the more reactionary of the Tory news- papers. The campaign is based on two main points-one, that the Government is too liberal-in- its political outlook; the other, that unadulterated Tory rule is to be preferred to the possible.German South-West Africa has alternative of Labour again been thrown into a ferment by it, and there are ripples of unrest in coming into power. Again and
Tanganyika. Dr. von Lindequist, again, attempts have been made
who has just been touring the to oust Mr. Baldwin from the
various former German colonies, was German Colonial Minister be- leadership of the Party, but so
fore the War, and la now president far he has managed to keep the
body called the German dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives Colonial Association, which aims at restoring these territories to jat bay and, by a process of mak-
ing the attacks a matter of con- Germany. fidence in himself and his polic- ies, has succeeded in placating the more restless members of the Party. In his latest declara- tion, Mr. Baldwin has been able to show a good record for the National Government, and he makes a good point by stressing the need for the establishing on sound and permanent founda- tions of the trade revival nl- rendy attained. In other words, the ground won has to be con- For this purpose, it solidated. does seem essential that thera should, at this juncture, be no interruption of the policies in-in South-West Africa, where grow- stituted by the Government. Fears for the future lie as much- in a possible wresting of power by out-and-out Conservatives as in the return to office of extreme Socialists. Fortunately, the National Government is pro- gressive, if not radical, in its outlook, a circumstance which. Mr. Eugene Chen complains of is in part due to the presence in the duplicity of Nanking anti-
Fukion
methods, propaganda the Ministry of several young Conservatives who have vision though he should be sufficiently and foresight and who have well versed in the art to be able to accept efforts to discredit the made a name for themselves in
movement to which he has given politics during the past few
allegiance without expressing sur- years. Captain Anthony Eden,
prise. Calumny and distortion of now promoted Lord Privy Seal, facts are the normal weapons of is one of these, and Major Wal-hostile factions, a fact which
ter Elliott another. It is a promising feature of British political life that young men of this type should be available Just now to lend their weight to the Government in power Future hopes depend much more on them than on extremists either of the Right or the Left.
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PLAN TO SWAMP ELECTORATES
The plan, which the Nazis seem to entertain, ja that of artifelally pouring in German settlers and creating local German majoritles. In South-West Africa one of their chief demands is for a relaxation of the naturalisation laws, in- cluding a shortening of the five- years' qualification to two years. The total white population in both areas being still small, it is only a question of spending enough money to swamp it by an immigra tion of subsidised settlers. A beginning has already been made ing difficulties confront the Union Government. Much the best plan would be to decide without more delay for the incorporation of the mandated territory in the Union.
EUGENE CHEN'S COMPLAINT
merely shows the wretchedness of the whole business. The swaying of public opinion in more than halft any militaristic campaign, and if all's fair, protests áro merely a reflection upon the skill of the objecting party, Japan felt the same way as Mr. Chen when the world refused to accept her view of the Manchurian adventure.
nationalism.
But Mr. Eden does appear to recognise that, if Geneva fails, there is no hope for an organised defence of peace; and he has had the courage to make his faith ap- parent even in the face of some-
He always does the decent thing if he possibly can; and no one can do the less decent thing with so much grace and charm. He Is kindly and well-meaning in every aspect of life. He thinks tradi tion the right path because the race has experience of its com- plexities; he does not remember (Continued on Next Columna.)
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that the roughness of the road has bever come his way. Distantly enough he realises that this is a world of Injustice and pain and cruelty, most of it unnecessary; but he reconciles himself to their existence partly by a belief in a mysterious doctrine of progress, and partly by the faith that othors share his own really sincero auxie. ty to diminish them.
Unconsciously he has had it drilled into him that an English gentleman is the noblest work of God; and 80 a scheme of social organisation in which the English. gentleman must purchase by work his price of admission to life seems to him to take the flavour from living.
It was Tolstoy who said that the rich will do anything for the poor except get off their backs; that in an infinitely kind and well- intentioned way, is the philos- ophy of the English gentleman.
And, in basic analysis, I suspect it is the ultimate outlook of the Edens and the Stanleys of the Tory Party.
But it la an attractive type. Compared to the buccaneers of big business, the great Prod lords, the Basil Zaharoffa of thin world, it is a type of high social value..
It can be made, to acquiesce la 'defeat; it can even be made to .co-operate with its conquerors,
I hope its virtues will find means of expression in the now world we have to build.