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AMERICA is
Waking Up!
by HAROLD LASKI
MERICA remains aftor Soviet Russia; the most exhilarating country
the world. It is n has a receptivity to experi- whirlpool of ideas. It
ment, a passion for discussion, the intensity of which is literally bewildering. No one. I think, can say in what direc-
tion it is moving with any
of life is changing at a speed
certitude. But that ils pattern
greater than at any previous period is, I think, equally un- deniable.
The crisis has left changes of profound significance. The tradi- tional belief in the leadership of business men has been rudely shaken. The conservatism of the universitica has been greatly
EN TUNNEN AF DE ROTATE modified; even at pinces like
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.
A PLEA FOR TENTS
A letter which appeared in Saturday's issue of the South China Morning Post induces us to revert to the question of the proposed banuing of tents and similar erections on the Repulse Bay beach, a prohibition which is likely to cause a distinct hardship to people who are financially unable either to own their sheds
or to pay for accommodation at
this, the most popular and most easily accessible bathing-place.on the island. The writer of the letter under notice, who has a
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intellectual lendership in the hands of "radical" undergraduates. The emphatic male of all significant American literature is one of protest: there is not to-day In American letters a single figure of sny real importance on the con- servative side.
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HERE is an Awaken ing of Labour to political consciousness, slow, in- deed, but in a new wily pro- found. There is even a good deal of heart-searching among the religious denominations the emergence of radical theologians ike Professor-Niebuhr-and Profes- sor Harry Ward is as important as the wide respect in which they are held.
There is a new zest among the younger generation for public ser- vice: governinent work as an official has a new prestine value.
There in new sense of the State. a recognition that the old way of. Inissez-faire is decisively over.
One constantly has the impres- slon in the United States that its tempor is ke nothing so much as that of Franco in the generation before 1700. Doubt of all
accepted eager values,
exploration
uf novelty, a general atmosphere of insecurity, the widespread sense
ard in that great events
the making these are universal.
Something new is being made. The one thing we do not know ! the nature of the new thing.
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America
who have learned least from the crisis are Itš business men and the corporation lawyers who are their dependents. They are the Bourbons of contem- porary America.
Frightened out of their wits in 1933, now that profits are being
chased a tent and fittings for $30. and as he cannot afford to own
or-hire a car he makes use of:
the bus service, which enables him and his family to reach Repulse Bay every week-end at a monthly cost of $16. To the argument that for the non-owner a matshed there is ample other accommodation available, the writer states that he cannot afford the Lido charges for him-over the threatened eviction, and self and family. A further he can hardly believe that His point on which he lays stress is Excellency the Governor and his that the present number of tents advisers will force him and those and umbrellas in no way inter-similarly placed out of their only fere with the amenities of the possible bathing beach. It is to beach. The case quoted must be be hoped that his appeal will not typical' of many others which full on deaf ears. So far as could be cited: Under the pro-other beaches are concerned, posed new regulations, Repulse there has been such a tremendous Bay will in future be exclusively increase in the numbers of reserved for matshed-owners matsheds at the more popular and the Lido--a state of affairs spots in recent years that it is which is obviously all in favour difficult to see how adequate pro- of everybody but the man of vision can be made for tents if small means. There was a time they are to be banned in front of when there was a big public shed sheds.. The whole of the pro- on this beach, provided by the posed regulations regarding tents Government, but this has been would appear to need reconsider-| done away with—a circumstance)ation, with variations made which explains the appearance of which, at spots where there is tents and umbrellas. The irony space available, would permit| of the situation is that two-thirds tents in front of sheds, provided of the seafrontage owned by the they are kept within certain Lido has not been developed and limits; so as to prevent obstruc- remains idle whilst many real-tion to other users of the beaches. dents will, when the new regula We are greatly concerned, in this tions come into force, be unable matter, for the family man of to find any accommodation what- small means. The proposals as iever. The writer of the letter to fat prosent drawn up are all in which we have alluded' says he favour of those who do not need and his family are really worried to consider the question of cost.
earned again, their one anxiety is the repression of disturbing ideas. They are terrified even by the mild liberalism of the President. They are angry at any hint of Indicalism from. University
A teacher. They even believe that the "New Deal" is, as one eminent professor put it, ten out of the twelve points of the Communist Manifesto,
They have no programine to meet the problems of the new time. They hate the trade unions. The militancy of the farmer disturbs them greatly..
NE sound thing in America seems to them the
Con- immovable servatism of the Supreme Court. They are beginning to find democ- racy a very dubious inheritance now that democracy is beginning to think in economic terms.
The Intellectuals, the mass of the workers outside the old craft trade unions, the bulk of youth; a
growing section of the professional classes, not least of them the teachers, aro aware that liberal America, the fabled land of oppor- tunity, is in gmve danger "big business regains its power.
The great farming interest has revived its claim to a place in the sun: If its outlook 14, largely, that of the Russian Kulak, at least it is no longer prepared for subser- vience to the manufacturer.
There is not, I think, any great increase in a stondinst adherence to. Left opinion. But thero la a deeper interest in Left opinion, a more constant senso of the Import- ance of its thinking, than at any time in the history of the United
States.
That la not to say that the Left is going to win. Blg business in America is very conscious of its power. It is more willing than any similar class in Europe to exhaust all its energy and its Ingenuity to maintain it
Its Intent Fascist temper la Intense; and the vast army of unemployed is a fertile, soll for Fascist ideas. Big bustness will propagandise without limit. It will uso hatred of the foreigner, the pervasive anti-Semitism, the un- explored, and largely ignorant, fears of Russia, Ita power to cor-
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
"A new America is in the making, oven though its contours, are. undoformined."
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
You just don't understand mental labour mother. While I appear to be idle, I might actually be accomplishing more
than you."
JOHN LEWIS of the Miners, soos that the "future" lias in organising the semi-skilled, and in founding a Labour Party."
rupt State and municipal govern- ment and the lower courts of Inw to have its way.
The Loft will have to learn some- thing of the relentless ability never to relax that the Right displays if it is to make its due impres sion on bewildered America.
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For though dissatisfaction widespread, it has not yet found Its appropriate ideology; the fight to utliiso this dissatisfaction is the - great struggle of the immediate
years.
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ND in the America of a half hundred national- ties, a Press In which the influence of Hearst is vital, in which the cultural tag is Immense, in which, also, the dis- respect for all political institutions save the Supreme Court grows, for progressive ideas to conquer means on immense effort. The appeal of what Mr. Wells calls the
raucous voices," Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, and a score of lesser men, to the angry, the dis- appointed, the half-educated is an Important one.
Their link with big buslucas is no
More
apparent to the multitude in America than was Hitler's to big business in Germany, or Muss0- lini's in Italy. The mablilty of the craft unions to see, as John Lewis of the Miners has come to see, that the future lies in
organising the semi-skilled, and in founding
Labour Party, gives the forces of American reaction' a vital advantage. The Left could win if they could organise the forces at their disposal. It. is not yet clear that they realise how important is their unification while there is yet time.
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'OTABLE, too, 14 the growing bolationism of America, the more notable since the President is more sympathetic in understanding of Europe than any of his pre- decessors in a generation.
-But we are paying a heavy price" for our weakness in Manchuria, out failure to use the League as it might have been used to protect Abyssinia. Americans Increasingly, believe that Europe's interest in them is purely selfish. They are appalled at its. Inability to put its house in order.
Moro, almost, than anything elso.
they want ways and means to avoid being involved in
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quarrels as in 1917. And a vital factor in that attitude has been the policy of the "National "Gov- ornment.
And that at a period when, naturally enough, her own pre- bccupation with herself 18, by. reason of the magnitude of her problems, profound. It is realised that the old equilibrium has gone: the price of searching for the new is, on any showing, heavy,
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Tis not really, a matter for wonder if an America
and angry at Europe's inability to understand her. I take one. Instance only; the handling of the debt problém by Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
The cold contempt for America his utterances on that issue con- tained will take long to repair. America is sensitive and proud. To win her friendship needs a sym- pathy and an understanding of which men devold, like Mr. Cham- berlain, of Imagination are in- capablo..
There is a now America in the. making, even though its contours. are undetermined: If Liberal America triumphs, it will make a new and fundamental contribution to our common civilisation; for the elements are there of a great renaissance of the human spirit. But its victory has still to be won,. while its defeat might open a grim and ugly chapter in the history of mankind.
To-day's Thought- THE mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a hell of
Heaven.
---MILTON,