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FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS
There can be no disputing the point
that one of the chief obstacles to European sind world peace lies in the continu-
The mah was Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, who died in the year 43 B.C.
His death date is a plea to the people of the world to realise the beauties and happinesses of friend- ship.
For Cleero wrote the loveliest words that have ever been given to the world on friendship.
At the time of his daughter's denth he was more than sixty. He had seen al the rivalries and Jenlousies of politics, Hu had tasted all life's pleasures,
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HE had known wealth and riches
and fame, but he did not value them very highly. The philosophy he forged out from his life experi ence in this time of trial was
"Put friendship above all things human."
And so of friendship he wrote. describing its virties and why everybody needs it showing what we must do to have friends and how people lose them.
He puts it in the mouth of the Roman general and man of letters. Galus Laelius, but there is no doubt that the splendid philosophy of friendship is his own.
Who, he naks firat. could be friends?
Friendship, he deelded, could only exist between good men.
On
FRIENDSHIP
If you can say to yourself that you have a friend, you may count yourself as a good man or woman.
There is no friendship for those who are not good.
But who are the good people? You can intensure yourself-by- wise Cleero's yardstick:--
"Those who an net and to live an to pive proof of loyalty and uprightuens, of fairness สม penerosity; who are free from all passion, cuprice, and inso- lence, and have great strength of character."
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AEN Clcera writes of the attri- butes of a friend. He tells those things by which you may test a friend, of the beauties which we shall find in friendship. and of the things we must do to have friends.
Firal, he said. a friend is one from whom you have no secrets, and in whom you have, utter trust. To friend as Cicero conceived him you would not four to co fide even something which would injure you If it were repented.
"How con life be chat Eunins call the life worth living if it does not repose on the mutual good will of a friend? What is acerter than to have some one with whom you may dare dis- cuss anything as if you were communing with yourself?" A friend, he goes on, is a person whom you never flatter.
"In friendship, unless you be hold and show an open heart, you can have no loyalty and not even the satisfaction of loving and of being loved, since you do not know what true love is.
"This flattery of which 1 spoke, however deadly it may be, ean harm no one except him who re- celves and delights in it,
"There is nothing therefore in a one of the parties to it does not wish to bear the truth and the other is ready to lie."
ing state of suspicion prevalent NOTES OF THE DAY friendship in which
between France and Germany.
There has latterly, however, WAITING FOR A SPARK been some indication of a feeling! in France that the crisis which
ever.
A friend is one to whom we per- form kindnesses.
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Rome's
Greatest Orator
Cic > una born in Italy four years before Julius' Coésar. He pra sed as a lawyer. At the age of forty-three he was „conaut,_eng_of_the_twin rulers of Rome elected for a year,
He became governor of a pro- viner in Asia Minor."
He He
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After Caesar's murder Cicero violently opposed Antony. became 12 marked man. was caught while trying escape.
And he voluntarily put his head out of the litter. It s shorn off by a hired assassin. He was sixty-three.
Then the head and right. handl of Home's greatest orator were hung up in public in the Forum. Antony's wife- a hated him that she came, pulled that cloquent tongue out of the mouth and repeatedly pierced it with, a pold hair- pin.
Cicero's oratory was po pathetic that it reduced the hearers to tears, His rhythmic sentences could rouse them to transports of enthusiasm. Yet he never beyan a specek without acute inward tremors.
valuing most highly those which give hope of the highest gain.
"Thus do they fall to attain that loveliest, most spontaneous friend- ship which is desirable in itself and for itself,"
A friend is some one in whose successes you really rejoice.
"How could your enjoyment in times of prosperity be so great if you did not have some one whose joy in them would be equal to your own?
"Adversity would indeed be hard to bear, without him to whom the burden would be heavier even than to yourself.
For friendship adds a brighter radiance to prosperity and lessena the burden of adversity by divíd- ing and sharing it."
A friend is a person whom you trent as an equal in all circum- stances even though you may differ in the eyes of the world,
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wise man, to maintain these two rules in friendship:- First, let there be no feigning or
hypocrisy!
Second, let him not only reject
charges "preferred by another, but also let him avoid even being suspicious and even believing that his friend has done some- thing wrong.
"To this should be added a cer.... tain affability of speech and man- ner, which gives no mean flavour to friendship."
We must work hard to make and keep our friends just as we work' hard at our business..
"Scipio used to complain that we were more painstaking. in all other things thim in friendship; that every
one could tell how anny sheep or goats he had, but
"You should love your friend after you have appraised him; you. should not appraise him after you have begun to love him." --And-what- of- the-friends-of-our
schooldays?
11 "Aa rule decisions about friendship should be formed 'after
reached In mind and age.
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and offence which it is wise some times to ignore. sometimes make light of, and sometimes to "NOR should men who in boy- endure.
hand were devoted to hunting "There are certain men who and games of ball keep as their render friendship disagreeable by intimates those whom they liked at thinking themselves slighted that period simply because they thing which rarely happens, ex- were fond of the same pursuits." cept in the case of persons who think they really deserve to be slighted; but they ought to be re- lieved from such thoughts not only by words but by action.
"It is characteristic of the good man, whom I may also call the
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And suppose the man you call your friend shows himself to be of such a character that you can no longer want his company?
"The ties of such friendship should be sundered by a gradual relaxation of intimacy, unravelled rather than rent apart.'
"Care must be taken lest -it appear, not only that friendship has been put aside, but that open hostility has been aroused.
Day by day, it seems, the world draws nearer to catastrophe. The from has arisen
the Italo-shadows "of
This exchange of kindly nets, of war and revolution Ethiopian dispute has made the always haunt us.
| heart-warming deeds of thought For a little wefulness, Cieero thought, was the
was unable to tell the number of necessity of some sort of
appear to progress, and then we very bricks and mortar of friend
his. friends; and that men took understanding between the two
Are cast down. Let us survey ship.
"It is of the utmost importance pains in getting the former, but Yet love nations more imperative than something of the scene.
ia further in friendship that superior and were careless in choosing the In Europe strengthened by the receiving of inferior should stand an un latter." It is well-known that M. the first stages of the naval dia- kindly service, by the evidence of equality so that the latter But before you make these stend- Laval is anxious to effect n armament conference have failed to another's care for us, and by closer should not grieve that he is sur fast bonds of friendship be careful Franco-German rapprochement produce a formula even approximat- familiarity, and from all there, paased by the former in intellect, of your man.
or position. You must and has made semi-official over-ng the various requirements of when joined to the soul's first im- fortune
pulse to love, there springs up, if I render to ench friend as much aid the nations and while the dele-may say so, a marvellous glow and as you can. tures to lerr Hitler on the subject. But it is equally clear gates search for a way to reduce greatness of good will." that he is baulked to some ex activity, and new war vessels take Ate whether we can get some- and never feul sighted.
naval strength, dockyards ring with!
A FRIEND is some one of whom FRIEND is some one whom we we should never, feel suspicious tent by political opposition, in shape. In Geneva they are still thing out of them or not.
"Varied and complex are which connection it must be laying plans for an oil embargo
"We believe," says Cicero, "that experiences of friendship, and they borne in mind that the French against Italy, and we already know friendship is desirable, not because afford many causes for suspicion strength and stability have been. parties of the Left, who form that such sanctions are likely to we are influenced by hope of gain, an essential part of M. Laval's precipitate a war, Great Britain but because its entire proft is in Parliamentary majority, are at has suddenly decided to reinforce the love itself.
"Love is nothing other than the the moment disinclined to make her fighting units in Africa and is great esteem and affection felt for any gesture of friendship to commandeering liners for
troop him who inspires that sentiment, Germany. There are also diplo-transports. The Italians apparent and it is not sought because of ly intend to ignore world opinion, material need, or for the sake of matic, obstacles in the way of and will bomb anything and every-material gala.. | accord, based principally on the thing on the Ethiopian side of the "The majority of men recognise fact that, since the Great War, nes, including ambulance units. nothing whatever la human ex- French security has been built in the war zone.
There are British ambulance units perience as good unless it brings We wonder what some profit, and they regard their upon alliances, under the League will happen if some of the British friends as they do their cattle (or of Nations, with those nations doctors and nurses on duty there their securities, as we might say), which believe they have reason
are shot down by Italian machine- gunners on these nerial adventures, to fear a resurrected Germany What dreadful danger for the world -Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Ru- may be born on that Ethiopian front where two vage armies face mania, Yugo-Slavia, and, more
une another? We need look no, recently, Russia. Any tendency farther for cause for alarm; and to conclude an understanding yet there are other spheres where with Germany would be re- some relatively trivial incident may
cause disaster. It brings.one sented by these nations as a be sense of futility that, for all the trayal of their trust. What, endeavours of the great minds of then, can be done in the matter? our time, for all the patient labours of statesmen and humanitarians, In the opinion of a foreign cor-
we can still be so very near to in- respondent in Paris, France, if credible horrors. Still, he would she is to conclude any
be a pessimist indeed who did not effective agreement with Ger- admit the value of these works on behalf of the preservation of peace, either let many, múst
go Even if that which has been built of these alliances
(or
at so painstakingly be torn down and least relax to a point where destroyed, the task of the future will not be so arduous, for others most of their efficacy will dis-
may prosper by our and experience, appear) or she must obtain from The pity of it is that the human Germany convincing assurances mind is still so feeble that it cannot
reement renthed concap the lessons the past thousand | that any agreement renthed
years of history plainly holds. tains no implied threat to the status
In Central and quo Eastern Europe. But in the ment remains the exclusion' last resort the solution lies with from the public consciousness of the people of France and Ger- fear, hatred or revenge." There many and with their leaders. are at the moment some indica- Above all at the present motions of progress in this direc- ment, it lies with the people of tion in France, and the promise
of the Rhine such decisions are this progress being confirmed reserved to leaders. The posi- and continued. This prospect tion is well set out in the obser- will como naturally when the vation that "the primary point thought of the two nationa has for both peoples, the first step been made ready for it-but towards any real rapproche not before.--
LANE, CRAWFORD, France, for on the other side of Insting peace will depend on
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"Now, wo sometimes have to change the rules a little bit
because of Jerry's temper."
"For nothing is more discredit- able than to be at war with one with whom you have once lived on intimate terms."
Despite all the dangers of choos- Ing unwisely, Cicero's advice was: "Keep on making new friends.".
"Arenew friends who are worthy of friendship to be pre- ferred at any times 'to old friends?" he asks."
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human being. There should, be no such thing as too many friends, as there can be of other things.
"As in the case of wines that Improve with age; the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. But new friendships aro not to-be schrned if they show liope of bearing fruit, like green shoots that do not disappoint us at harvest time."
For those who think that, they can do without friendship or can rub along with mere acquaintances, Cicero sald
"If it is evident in animals that they require and eagerly search for other animals of their own kind to which they may attach the declves and this they do with a longing in some degree resembling human love-then how much more, by the Inw of his nature, is this the case with man who loves himself and uses his reason to seek out another whose soul ha may no mingle with his own as almost to make one out of two??
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